RE: Trying to Get Beyond Monetary Rewards
Great post, Only read the first part and agreed with most of it.
"It's really rare for a whale to flag a post to reduce it's rewards due to personal malice. Most the time it is due to their view of benefiting the platform as a whole and never pads their own pockets. Remember that every flag a whale puts out is a lost opportunity cost for curation rewards (which is really the only way they earn on their SP now.)
If you are one who rarely makes these higher rewards and gets flagged, try to understand where the whale is coming from rather than taking it personal."
In the future you might want to consider a TLDR version at the bottom of your post, that's a very common thing on Reddit. Also highlighting important part of your text help bring people in who might be intimidated by the length of the text.
Thank you!
Yea, the goal on part of this was to give that 'point of view' of whale flagging. It is pretty rare to see that tool used purely to be mean to somebody. Like you said...typically it's with the benefit of the platform itself in mind. Also, each flag used looses the opportunity cost of the curation rewards it could have instead garnered...to a degree these flags are a sacrifice.
Good point on the TLDR and the text highlighting. I've been mainly doing shorter posts for a while so I kinda missed that need to this longer piece. I'll keep an eye on that. Thank you!