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RE: The Newbie’s Guide to Flagging
Don't know how this guy spoke to you exactly and it's too late in the night to check, but isn't flagging him an overreaction? I mean, the way the text tells the story, it goes immediately from him demanding upvotes to you flagging his content. The guy as you presented him is I agree very unlikeable, but I don't know, I would just ignore him, maybe flag the comments themselves but not the account.
I don't know maybe it's my rather "permissive" nature making me feel ambivalent about this.
Yes, if I had immediately flagged him, it would have been an overreaction. You're not wrong :)
If you flag comments, you're flagging the account, so there's no way around that.
The 'conversation' went downhill fast when he asked if I was a man dressed as a woman. None of his business if I was, but as I said... completely off-topic.
I removed every flag I posted and then saw that he and his friend had flagged (or tried to flag) as many of my posts as possible. Yes, I did laugh because I hadn't noticed.
Then I saw the abuse he levelled at a well-liked and respected member of Steemit, a guy that does so much good in his community and who reacted with grace and kindness to the abuse he received.
That's when I flagged the idiot and those flags will stay because he's been on Steemit as long as I have and yet he's whining that no one is giving him anything...
I had the impression he was a newb, but if he's been here as long as you have, the excuses I can make up for him are fast diminishing!
Didn't even know that! I've never flagged anyone, nor been flagged. Even spammy comments on my posts. I guess I'll get around to doing my duty eventually.
Yeah, it's looking more and more like it's what we're going to need to do - kind of like curating the whole Steemit Platform.
We have to take care if it, it's the only one we have :D