RE: A CENSORSHIP THREAT TO STEEMIT
My work is health and weight loss. I do not use goog ads or yt ads for this reason. Many, many, many of my friends over the years have lost their accounts as soon as they monetize. It seems we fly under the radar until we get into those programs and then the kill is quick.
It recently happened to a whole pack of related alt health people who were working together on yt. They all monetized about 2 months ago and their lives have all been never-ending hell since. I found out about it in a fb group discussion and SO MANY people chimed in to say it happened to them as well.
Those places have money and are threatened by the alexa ranking here. People like me can talk about toxins in the food supply and rank in a day since that stuff is censored everywhere else. If they see a way to shut it down - they will. It's big on search, but most results will tell you, "It's ok to eat YYZ chemical! Don't worry!" But in my autoimmune disease groups we all know to avoid XYZ.
I've read a lot of arguments about downvoting in my 3 weeks here and I have to say this is the worst one for me yet. I've been only posting pics into challenges for the most part, but if I go off on a tear about some of the specific problems in the us food supply, I can see myself getting killed.
Before I read your post I was 100% against the idea of downvoting already. I have yet to read one argument for it that I thought had validity. There is a mute button for a reason.
So my question is - can we find out who these accounts are and mute them in advance of them attacking or do we just have to wait until they do? If we mute, can they still downvote? How would I even know if I was downvoted?
Steemit is not easy, and that is for sure. But I am still swimming :)
If you mute someone, you can't see them, but they can still flag your posts and comments, and if they have solid wallet, you are history.
I know people say there are two sides to things, but flagging is a mystery to me - I say it's not complex at all - flagging is pure bullshit
On other platforms I am aware of, the mute/block function means the person cannot see you at all. Thank you for letting me know this is not the case here. Then I should not mute, since if I do - I will not even know if they get onto my posts.
the mute button comes in handy when you pick up a troll. A post of mine picked one up the other day, and the support from the community was awesome but I muted him, I can still see the comments if I look at the post and I am not logged in, but I no longer get notifications every time the asshat trolls my post. Before I muted him I looked at his comments and all he does is troll on post similar to the post I posted. So I muted him, don't have time for trolls, but I also looked and he is just a minnow so I didn't worry about muting his ass.
Interesting. What was the general topic of the post or of the trolling? I agree that I am not worried if the person is under 30. That only took me a day or two to get out of once I started, so if they are already making trouble???
it was my personal story on how my son was vaccine injured, he was over the top
My God. I'm so sorry. I can only imagine and I have heard all the ignorant comments too. I'm very well-versed on this tragedy. My prayers to you and your son.
Try going to fb groups for natural help and detox ideas about it. Some of that stuff can come out - some not, I guess. Strides are being made. You probably already know.
I was in those groups for a few weeks last year for research and my heart was broken 1000 times. I'm a single mom with a son who is now 25 and I regret every shot.
I promote natural help for obesity, autoimmune disease, and ptsd. All are hard. Yours is magnitudes harder but still the same. An anti-inflammatory lifestyle helps everyone if you can swing it.
We done most of the Detox methods but a couple we are waiting till he is 18 to decide if he wants to try them because on though rare could have a serious side effect and the other is not legal here in the state we are in.
But yep well versed, he stopped receiving them after his injury.
I'm so glad to hear that you stopped. I agree that you need to be so careful with those methods. Did you find improvement with what you did try?
If we don't have flagging how do you stop a whale from raping the reward pool every single day for as long as the community still has some room to swim around all the self voting that will happen, just so that people can make a couple cents, if that, because when the whale pulls out the world of steem is fucked, and another whale will quickly step up to the successive rape of guaranteed rewards. The reason for flagging is game theory crab bucket mentality.
That is exactly what some whales are doing.
Including the whale who posted the top comment on this post.
You just upvoted him yourself FFS - now try flagging him and see how $745 vs $222 000 works out
Thankfully smack down kitty just had a crack at him and reduced his payout from $25 to $10 - but smack down kitty only has $100 000 to play with
if we don't have flagging how would that work without flagging, you missed the freaking whole point crying "that's what's going on now, look flagging doesn't work because it's not fair".
Sorry but flagging has a purpose, and it's not for whales to keep control, it's for people to remove rewards from content plagiarized, from spam, and from voturbations like above. Yes I voted for him before I realized he was the power voter who was voting for the comment, he is still correct even so.