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RE: Flag Wars - Strengthening the community and increasing user retention?
I think the whole thing is fucking pathetic to be honest! I say to all parties of this flag war, grow up, shake hands and use steemit properly instead of bringing it down for everyone
The problem is the Flag Wars are caused by Whale users having god like power to flag/downvote anyone they want into oblivion. They have the power to do this, and so they use it anyway they want, which sounds fair except those who are not whales have no way to combat this.
They upvote their own comments, downvote others for doing the same, etc etc, one rule for them, another rule for everyone else. Rule by force through downvotes/flagging.
The whales in question would say they are using it how it was designed; for them to have lots of power and do whatever they want with it.
Simple fix 3 flags/downvotes allowed per day
This wouldn't work for preventing spammers and plagiarism. Many community members have suggested plausible ideas, but this requires implementation from our devs, a lot of who are busy with other high priority things. In time this will be resolved with code, but for now the Flag Wars continue.
With enough experimentation and delegated voting, we could come up with ways to counter whales without having to gain whale power or rely on waiting for code change.
In my time here of just over 3 weeks I can honestly say I've never needed to flag anyone, I did once by accident cos I wanted to see what would happen haha