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RE: Should I up vote this guy ranting? No I might face retaliation
I read your post and it is extremely well thought out and is exactly in line with my own thoughts.
Yet as I stated when people were mentioning esoteric reasons for flagging a post. "I asked how are new people supposed to know these rules?"
So I guess our challenge is finding a way to make sure everyone is aware of your etiquette. It'd be nice if the first time someone used the flag it popped up something similar to a EULA that explained this etiquette. I do not know how easy this would be to accomplish as I have not looked at the codebase. This is beta though and all I can do is help with my ideas.
Thank you for writing that. It is important and I'll likely point other people to it.
Yes some sort of general community consensus should be proposed and the reasons for flagging should be outlined generally, because some see flagging as simple downvoting and some as more than that. A whale posting this for discussion would be extremely valuable, because minds like yours @dwinblood are very valuable and I think we have both expanded on one another's ideas and can take criticism and implement if efficiently.
I care about this place. This flagging hasn't happened to me so much that it impacted me. I do have old posts that people flagged weeks after I wrote them but it didn't really impact me because they were not very powerful, and I'd already received payout.
So when I write this it is because I like this community a lot, and I can see it's huge potential, and I see this as being a big problem that could scare off people. Yes, some will stick and persevere, and we could be l33t and say "too bad", but this is also an investment so more people able to use this platform without barriers is a good thing IMO.
Most definitely! Always glad to have people focused on heading toward the same objective, while bringing others alongside.