Hello Michelle. I am really sad to hear this news and hope very much a solution can be found.
One of your fans @bashadow kindly directed me here, hoping that my rep number might be of some use. Sadly we both know it's all about the SP and after living exclusively on steem for 7 months, things are not looking too hot in my steem wallet these days.
On a platform where there are no rules this is a tricky one. Those with the most steem have the most power. It can be no other way.
What really bugs me is that I am seeing more and more of this kind of thing on Steemit. People with SP dedicating their time to seeking out and flagging that which they don't agree with. Based on nothing more than personal preference.
My knee jerk reaction to this is always the same. I feel as if I want to create a pool of 'good guys' who flag them into oblivion. But then my sensible side kicks in and I remember we cannot fight fire with fire and by doing this we are lowering ourselves to their level.
Like I said, I hope a solution can be found and if there is anything I can do to help, please just let me know. Am just about to turn 71 and one thing is for sure... I will be writing about this growing problem on Steemit in my so called 'celebration' post.
Thank you.
No, you cannot fight fire with fire. You can't defeat hate with more hate.
I've been bullied before, and I did give up once.
I was beaten so badly that it became a police matter and the four assailants were taken to court.
As we were all kids, it got as far as the local Magistrate's court.
The Magistrate asked me, "Are you frightened of this girl?" (The ringleader.)
I replied, "Yes." Well, why not? She and her friends had kicked the living shit out of me and I can still show you the damage they inflicted - I have regular physio for some of it.
It was later - days, weeks, months - that my mind mulled it all over (as my mind does) and I started to think on my answer.
Four of them had beaten and kicked me, yet they hadn't killed me and while I'm not dead I can still get up and fight.
I fell off a horse a few years ago and hurt my shoulder. After 2 years of pain, I went to a physio. I didn't have a pulled muscle as I'd thought, I'd torn the muscles from the top 4 vertebrae in my spine and it wasn't healing, just hurting.
I can handle physical pain and still function.
This isn't painful, this doesn't hurt. These bullies aren't actually affecting me in any way that bothers me and while they're concentrating their efforts on me, how many people that they do bother are they leaving alone?
I look at it that I'm doing a public service and some people are getting some respite.