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RE: Payouts Over $50 vs. Flags Applied (Feb. 18-24)
Check out the new post where I address the concentration of power, both in whales who upvote, and whales who downvote. We need decentralization of power to resolve both.
The negative must be faced. I'm in the thick of it, I feel it hard, and its draining every day. I will keep at this until change is going to happen. It sucks that transisto does it too, this reward-policing seems to be growing more... The concentration of power needs to be addressed finally, or Steemit will die as I see it...
The community needs to set the rules for how the community functions, and the code can be changed. Otherwise, Steemit will likely die from a lack of recognizing the issue of concentration of power.
@krnel
I wish you would just discuss it in the witness chat channel as smooth is there too isn't he?
how is this helping the community?
perhaps this post would help you calm down. I don't think writing about it in series would help you convince them and I don't think it is helping you either. These post series are making you look bad - it's like .. this flagging overrewarded content has been going on for weeks and its not just smooth nor transisto that are doing it there's more .. but when it happened to you that's when you complained about it.
Yes, when it affects someone personally, that's when they are more motivated to do something about it.
This started with me, in January. And then grew to other people, and I kept getting "overrewarded" and flagged, and then after 6-7 time I had enough as the payout "overrewarding" "limits" kept shrinking, it was obvious something wasn't right. So I spoke up about it.
People have tried to get this balance of power and concentration of power issue resolve in the past, but to no avail. I decided to do this because I have HIGH REP and have more visibility for people to see something is going wrong, even though most ppl know about it nothing seems to be done... hehe. I knew I would put a target on my back. This needs to be done now before thinking of "growing" and getting more people.
I read that months ago, and I don't agree with some of the points listed. I get your point though ;)
@krnel I respect that it's your right to do this but I don't agree with your approach and I hope you don't take it against me. I don't see it would help the community - it's creating havoc and a ripple of ranting posts related to it. You're not really trying to create a revolution against one person are you? If more posts about it come out and they all go on trending I and the many would surely have a hard time convincing our friends to join and those who already did may also stop cause mud throwing is never healthy - if we treat Steemit as a family perhaps it would be better to keep our family's skeleton in its closet. Perhaps we could create a chat channel dedicated for only this and all those who are concerned must answer any questions thrown in them. I have thought of writing you in the chat earlier on, too but I guess this is also okay. I hope you calm down. For the love of you I hope you can forgive me if I have been straightforward about my comment.
This is a community wide issue. We here a lot of second hand reports about what someone says in chat. They are often conflicting accounts. At least here it is on the blockchain and people cannot deny what they did or did not say.
But the community can only make suggestions, right? And it's up to the developers to listen to us or not and change the code or not.
I think that it is great to make suggestions.
I'm just saying that unless the changes are made, we have to accept that we have decided to join the Wild West where nothing is fair. Keep pushing for changes but take the emotion out of it if we can. If emotions gets to an unhealthy level, I think that it is best to leave "the Wild West" as there is nothing holding us here.
But perhaps you are good with the high emotional levels involved in fighting this fight. It may be worth it to you, especially if you don't have other more important fights going on in your life right now.
Many people are already emotionally on the edge just from dealing with their lives outside of Steemit. And it is not healthy to expect things to be fair here in a place that they chose to join, but they don't need to be here ... if the expectations of forcing things to be fair on Steemit pushes them over the edge.
Honestly, just seeing all of this constant talk about the situation here on Steemit lately has drained me a fair bit even though I decided that it should not. I probably should not even read posts like this or respond to them.
In reality I DO CARE a lot about what happens to Steemit ... however, I should not allow myself to care so much if it interferes with living a healthy life.
What does "The negative must be faced" mean ?