RE: Will Flagging Ultimately End up Killing the Steemit Platform?
Thanks for dropping in @sift666. Yeah, anyone saying it's not censorship is simply hiding behind semantics. They can't wriggle out of the fact that it is indeed at the very least soft-censorship, and that it's ugly as hell every time it's done to a non-spam, non-bot post.
I can already tell what's going to happen here. They're going to lose, another, better, platform will spring up that doesn't censor, and that'll be that. The market picks and chooses, and it's a finicky market. I remember when MySpace nerfed themselves with the shitty redesign that everyone hated, everyone stopped using it and migrated to facebook.
Now Facebook's reputation, and censorship tactics have become so bad that people are jumping ship from that platform too. Especially after the acknowledgement from their former devs about how they deviously planned to get people psychologically addicted. I fear it is only a matter of time, the sand is dropping through the hour glass. When Steemit censorship becomes so rampant that the memes turn against them, that'll be all she wrote.
You can fool people that censorship isn't censorship with psychological gymnastics for only so long. Yet this type of foolery doesn't actually convince them, in their heart they know, it's censorship. It would only take a few clever dank ass memes to expose that fact, and that kind of magical meme power is the equivalent to one little boy saying: "the king has no clothes". Everyone knew, but they didn't know they knew. The blinders had to be removed, and it's not a difficult task to accomplish.
It would be nice if they would abolish this practice, because it's the right thing to do. And of course their is the whole reward side aspect of it too, and I don't know how that plays into it. Where the rewards go, and whatnot. Say one large downvote subtracts 50.00 voting power for a given amount of time, and also redirects 50.00 in rewards. I don't know if their is some hidden benefit that someone like a lead programmer might be taking advantage of via that method or not. Anything in that realm would be out of my ability to comprehend at this point.
Just seems really odd for a dev to be acting like this.
I think there is some really odd stuff going on behind the scenes and as a big fan of Steemit I hesitate to start talking about my mad theories - they are paranoid and negative, and if they are true I have no solutions.
Lets just say that some people would be in a very powerful position if there was a shift from Steemit to a new platform - this could be a very dirty race - are we seeing flagging or dragging?
We really ought to get a group going. We're all reasonable here and can differentiate between wild speculation to prospect new possibilities (no matter how unlikely). And actual evidence based documentatuion of massive wrongdoing that could endanger the whole platform. Finding the catch is not a game, it's a duty of free thinkers who have been had one too many times.
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