Blacklist?!?! Is The Steemit Platform Becoming A “Muppet Show?”
Good Day One and All
Regrettably I have to make you aware that the biggest downfall of “our” social platform “Steemit” isn’t plagiarism it is in fact the relentless cyber-bullying perpetrated by certain individuals.
These individuals have independently and unilaterally put themselves in charge of censorship within a social platform. Ask yourself this....
Did you nominate them to provide this “service”?
Did they provide a “White Paper” outlining their intentions?
Has any form of guideline, instructions or manifesto been published for review by the “Steemit” community?
Did you vote or choose to accept their opinions and guidelines relating to their intentions and censorship criteria?
They feel it necessary to downvote, criticise and blacklist; if you are uncertain who these muppets are you should check out the post below.......
https://steemit.com/busy/@psecdocumentary/censored-by-themarkymark-badcontent-and-buildawhale-bots
You will notice that it’s a very interesting read; you may also notice that it has been “downvoted” to the point where it’s technically been hidden from view!!!
I understand this as I am also the victim of this abuse; and that is exactly what it is.......
Please don’t get me wrong, I am “man” enough to stand by my posts; yes they are plagiarised, ofcourse they are #nsfw. I realise they don’t appeal to everyone’s taste, but don’t view #nsfw posts if you are offended. By the same token all of my “normal” posts are abused too; I can’t seem to get it right!!!!
And, before any “disclosure” occurs I also upvote my posts and comments too! But I’m certainly not in the minority on that front.......
Ofcourse, people are entitled to their own opinions; upvote or downvote that’s everyone’s prerogative. It just strikes me as a little “one sided”, they have no issue voting on their own posts and using their voting bots to upvote and therefore increase the value of the same posts too.
Then there’s the “bull shit” manual curation and upvoting each other’s posts.........
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”
WAIT......
I get it now, preaching about reward pool rape, plagiarism and censorship issues; blacklist bollocks......... are we witnessing a steem illuminati??
We all know who these individuals are; we may have even experienced their irresponsible and misguided “justice”. Unfortunately unless we inherit substantial volumes of steem power there is nothing we can do about it!!
Well apart from be the victim of their “daisy chain” abuse whilst they satisfy themselves and each other.......
I guess the biggest test of their/our community will be the success or failure of this post? Resteem, upvote, comment........WHATEVER, it’s your platform as much as theirs so why should we put up with their abuse and bullying?
I don’t for one second assume they would do a similar thing if they were sat next to you?!?!
Remember this is our platform, we are the people that make it happen; so why should we let a “handful” of individuals ruin it and dictate to us how it should be done???
They are using their stake how they see fit. Nobody is being censored, you have the right to post, not to be heard or to earn.
I don't always agree with their actions, but I support their ability to use their stake to try to shape the platform how they wish.
By the way, this was flagged and I still saw it.
@whatsup using their steak to benefit themselves without screwing others would be fine. But what they are doing is not only abuse by moral standards, but I'd imagine by legal ones as well. This isn't people outbidding each other in the stock market. This is something entirely different.
Plus, the fact that this bot literally edits the view of other peoples posts and makes false claims about them is at best, defamation. Using defamation to harm someone else's continuity while gaining from having done that harm, is at worst, illegal.
I'm not a stocks professional and I'm not a lawyer but this sounds similar to insider trading which is illegal as all hell. Insider trading in essence, is a small group of people using insider knowledge and resources to gain unfair advantage by gaming the system.
Don't get me wrong though, from an objective perspective it is a clever scam. A beautiful fraud. I might even go so far as to say genius. But there is still a difference between criminal genius and someone using their stake as they see fit (legally).
And all of that regulation on trading and money has created a system that people are trying to avoid. Legally.
@whatsup of course it is not a leap of logic to admit that if someone has enough money, the law does not apply to them. No one of the upper ruling class of this world ever goes to jail for anything, murder included. They literally have the entire system bought and paid for.
Guilty until proven wealthy, as I like to call it.
I'm just not sure if Marky Shark is lacking concern about getting caught with his laundering scheme because he's simply just too over competent, or -- if he is one of these top 1% that runs the world so he is literally above the law.
I have no clue who Marky Shark is "in real life".
Fight plagiarism is beneficial. And all these fighters for the purity of the network just make money on it. The more fighters, the less interesting content and the more impostors earn on regulation of what should not be regulated. These impostors appointed themselves. The only chance is to fight these impostors. Otherwise, the blockchain steem is waiting for a very miserable.
These impostors hide behind themselves, creating empty accounts and voting for their comments. They spamyatsvoimi comments. Look, is not this spam?
https://steemit.com/@badcontent/comments
A earns from this spam @ipromote
Look at how much he creates garbage comments to clean up his own upvote. A real laundry.
Here is another example of useless spam on which creators earn.
https://steemit.com/@steemcleaners
Here he launches his upvotes, @adm
They are their destructive actions that mask the struggle for the purity of content, only destroy the blockchain. I do not use steemit.com and I do not have to follow its rules. After all, steem is created as a platform for creating many different sites based on it. Different sites with their own rules. And these pests impose their conditions on everyone. On what grounds?
P.S. Now both these manipulators will put me flags, but, it must someone say.
P.P.S. If you want to earn on your upvote, can this be done honestly without damaging the system? For this, there are posts with the tag #sbdgiveaway. Use and do not harm the development of the blockchain, please. Do good deeds, not harm.
@topfindings you do realize that speaking these sorts of truths public might end you up on the badcontent blacklist yourself, right? :) With that said: https://steemit.com/abuse/@psecdocumentary/think-something-might-be-an-online-racket-report-it-to-the-fbi-online
everything is plagiarised on the internet and on steemit.com
people have the right to write whatever they want post whatever they want. thats how steemit should be not facebook. its a free god damn world
@banditqueen by extremist logic, everything basically is plagiarism. To so much as make a cultural reference, is plagiarism. And cultural appropriation if you're not of that culture. That is the extremist mind. Of course the extremist mind also thinks that they can say and do whatever they want, it is simply just that no one else can. It is an elitist mentality. It is classic. It is historic. It is this idea of "purity" and "conformity" that has been the primary driver of everything from two people getting into a fist fight over an ideological discussion, to war and genocide. I personally have little faith in humans, plural. A human I can like. A human I can respect. A human can earn my trust. A human, can be a good moral person. But people are aggressive panicky animals that have a bloodlust they aren't even consciously aware of. The drive to feel a false sense of superiority to over compensate for trauma. Maybe they were beaten as a child? Maybe molested? Maybe they just weren't as popular as they wanted to be and they go through life with a chip on their shoulder. Every person who acts shitty towards others has reasons to justify their behavior. Quite frankly if we're too unenlightened and to addicted to drama to unite in a civil way against tyranny, then we deserve all the war, all the genocide and all of the abuse that people like The Marky Shark can rape us with. And we deserve it as a fair consequence for our gross negligence. I see Marky as an opportunity, not a burden. I'm curious to see whether or not people will unite and use this as an opportunity to improve Steemit, or just let themselves be cucked by Marky and any other elitists who think they reserve the right to push their false sense of moral superiority onto others. We deserve all of the CryBullies, SJWS, Tyrants and War Mongers that are unleashed upon us, if we are going to continue to fail to learn from the mistakes of history.
By the way it's not just in english. I saw people play "steemit police" in german here as well lol.
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What’s happening here is an unfortunate side effect of a completely free society. A few people will assign themselves the roll of moral police. What do we do about it? I don’t know... ignore them? If you fight them they win. Never wrestle with a pig, because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
I dig your content, dude. Keep up the good work. Don’t allow an idiot to ruin your day.
It is necessary to make the business of these impostors unprofitable. Set them back flags. When they become unprofitable, they will stop doing it. They are not for the sake of an idea, they are for the money spoil the entire system.
@topfindings I agree. Right now here are the ways to make it increasingly unprofitable:
#1 - report frauds to proper authorities: https://steemit.com/abuse/@psecdocumentary/think-something-might-be-an-online-racket-report-it-to-the-fbi-online
#2 - unity in the community. Everyone that has gotten abused by this scam needs to track each other down, follow each other and support each others work as much as possible. Our COMBINED reputation power will over power nazi dick tators such as The Marky Shark once we have enough numbers. Steemit makes it easy to see exactly who is being abused by this money laundering racket, so it hasn't been difficult to unite.
#3 - support each other on other platforms as well. YouTube, BitChute, etc the list goes on.
United we stand, divided we're cucked.
@dudeboblives I don't think we're seeing a side effect of a completely free society, I think what we see is an attempt at a completely free society that has made the mistakes all non-free societies have always made. For example, the reputation scoring thing. That is not a free society aspect at all. That is an elitist ranking system. A free society would mean if someone is a douchebag, then people reserve the freedom and the right to block them if they wish to, and that no one else gets to make that choice for them. So where as IPFS itself may be completely free societaly, STEEMIT most surely IS NOT. Anything based around a centralized hierarchy is inherently non-free. Though IPFS is a decentralized method of storing and transferring data, this does not automatically imply that everything using this method is magically and by default in a state of freedom.
Now if someone creates a blacklist of some sort and people have the option of opting-in or opting-out, this would be completely fine. But no one can opt-out of @badcontent. Whether anyone likes it or not, if they come across a steemit profile whose content is on this list and they find it annoying that they are getting bogus "beware of spammer" messages every time they view that content -- they have no option what so ever to opt-out of seeing that. Therefore, Steemit is NOT a "free society" and therefore this is not a side effect of a free society, it is business as usual in the usual classic historical tyranny / kakistocracy.
Check out my experience with thefraudyfraud. https://steemit.com/steemit/@ran-a-banana/the-bid-bot-blacklist-racket
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Amazing idea of the post
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