RE: The state of steemit central - come one come all - your comments required. PRIZES TOO.
The accounts and posts may be deleted and banned on some frontends (also Steemit.com by Steemit Inc) but are still on the steem blockchain and can interact with it.
Sure if most people weren't in fear of being retaliated against for doing such. That DO thing did seem warranted in my opinion but situations like that should be the only type outside of abuse that flags are used to take away people's rewards. If you don't like something comment to that effect and don't upvote the post. Flagging is so abused people will flag the post, flag the comments, flag people who comment on a flagged post, run over to the person's blog site and then proceed to flag everything done still pending rewards that was/is totally unrelated to what they got upset about...this type of flagging abuse needs to stop.
No.
Flagging is also an important tool to decrease an unjustified big Payout.
Just in this way way Plankton get a bit of the Reward Pool.
Without flagging there would only be self voting by whales and as Plankton / minnow it would be thousand times harder..
Folks need to understand that flagging is an important tool.
Of course of youre just here for the money I can understand your fear of Flags.
Im not here for money. I dont care.
But I still know how important flags are.
There are also plans to increase flagging Power for everyone.
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Flagging for unjustified payouts would be in the abuse of the platform status. They can go ahead and increase everyone's flagging power and it will be the last thing they will need to do just before turning the lights out for good. If you disagree with a article someone post then don't up vote it, simple as that. If you don't agree with a comment don't upvote it, if it's a abusive comment flag it but don't go running over to the persons blog site and revenge flag everything in sight...they will never get it that it's the number one thing holding this platform down.
I never revenge flagged anyone..
Such things do greedy whales.
And that's exactly why you need flagging Power and flag Trails.
To decentralized control this place.
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I see that as more of a mess, you do realize that most the power on here is held by a small group of a couple hundred...I'd wager to bet that small group can be broken down into being sock puppets of even a smaller groups among themselves, like say one person in that group is really like twenty five socks puppets in that group also.
Sorry boy.
I dont understand.
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I am a girl...or lady, lol.
It's pretty common knowledge on here that most large stake holders don't have all their eggs in one basket, they have multiple accounts. So as an example per se, take Ned, he may have his Ned account but he also may have multiple other accounts under different names. Accounts like those they can use to flag you multiple times making your flag useless. Stake gives you power to overcome a flag so their high stake multiple flags can make a flag with a trail following useless.
Maybe to understand this better take a look at the power it took to come together to stop Haejin. Haejin was an incredible power player with high stakes who abused the system, no one was capable of stopping him until other top power players combined to form a force capable of flagging his post until he adjusted his behavior. I am sure if you look for it you can find out how that played out somewhere here on the blockchain.
Haejin never stopped selfvoting.
That's why we need Flagging Power and Flagging Trails.
Without these Tools there will always be fights between whales.
With those tools the community can unite their stake and force whales to stop.
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