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RE: Common Voluntaryism Misconceptions:
Looks like I am not the only one to have vented this morning :) Especially after what has been happening the last couple of days.
Put down the electronics and have your holiday.
What are you referring to from the last couple days? I've been traveling for a while now and feel somewhat disconnected.
This trip is mostly a business trip, but I convert them into mini-holidays and bring my family so we can have fun too. :) Hopefully I'll get around to posting all the pictures and videos of the fun things we've been up to.
Hey bru, seems you have stirred up quite a discussion here. I was referring to the purge of voices happening on the main social platforms. How this is not correct (regardless of personal opinion) and honestly this is leading to a very slippery slope. It is all glaring obvious that divide and conquer is in play here. Well I wrote about it yesterday as I couldn't let things stand.
Lucky that you can make a business trip work with family. Living the life of a modern digital nomad :)
I am all about less govt.
Great post, and yeah, I definitely agree there's some strange stuff going on with regards to the existing (or legacy) social media systems which are governed by central control. We have our own problems on steemit also with large token holders hiding what they want, but at least the content is always on the blockchain.
@lukestokes - You: We have our own problems on steemit also with large token holders hiding what they want, but at least the content is always on the blockchain.
Can you please explain what that means?
Thanks
A large whale can flag a post with a lot of voting power just because they don't like someone, not because the post is bad or because the person violated and community standards, but simply because a whale wants to. That post would then be hidden by default in the Steemit interface so you have to click "show" to see it. It's always there on the blockchain though.
@lukestokes - oh I see what you mean, so if even I flag a comment it gets hidden, or only by Whales?
And what constitutes a whale?
NOT cool.
I would think it would take several people flagging before a comment/post is hidden.
Comments are paid out or shown/hidden based on the Steem Power of the people who vote it up or down (i.e . "flag"). If someone has a lot of Steem Power (a lot of stake in the system) they have more say in who is valuable and what is not. If they make bad decisions which harm the entire network and the value of the token, then they are harming themselves. Unfortunately, some people don't think in these terms and do it anyway.
@lukestokes - how much SP do you have to have to have this much power?