Would a whale on Steem pay to flag a $300 post reporting his threats and flagging to remove coimments etc?
if I paid $300 to get a post to #1 on trending and this post revealed some distasteful actions about a whale that are all available on the blockchain, simply highlights them, do you all think it would stay? or would steemit whales pay or use $300 worth of flags just to flag a post? Can most whales even do that?
the post would do nothing but show what a certain whale on Steemit did, sending out threats, forcing another user to revoke comments AND a post, under threat of being flagged, after they had flagged unrelated posts, just to send a message, after this user simply questioned a certain controversial steem project.
Do many whales even have the power to flag more than $50 to $100 ? Is it even possible to pay to flag posts? Would most bid bots even accept payment to flag a post if it were very factual, and simply went over what happened in a very robotic non emotional way?
This really bothers me now that I think about it because we are all working towards the enrichment of these people, and why should I be working so hard to empower people who will use this system to silence me after I have worked harder than this whale has ever worked for steem, and I am 100% sure that even with their larger stake I have still probably done more to help the price, and their actions have caused so many to leave that their stake has the opposite effect.
- That post is getting flagged to $0
- No whale but ned can flag a top trending post in one flag
- It depends on the Whale
Answer the question at dpoll.xyz.
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steemit is life and the whales are the cancer
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Some of these whales are owners of some bid bots that exist on Steem. Thus, they can use it for their flag missions. As a matter of fact, I have seen a case like this!
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Remark1: Other sites, like busy or partiko, can still show the flagged post.
Remark2: If you want to know more, search for "flagging wars"
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There's a few factors involved here, but I'm going to buck the trend with my answer, even though Ned's account is down to a small dolphin, so he would have to use one of the Steemit accounts to try to knock down the post. And as far as I know, that's never happened, and highly unlikely to happen.
In order to be able to knock $50 off a post, a whale would have to have a little more than 2 million SP at their disposal, which means, it can't be otherwise delegated. Most whales of that size are either delegating or not on the chain enough to even know what's going on.
Could a whale and their whale friends knock it to zero? With around 13 million combined SP, they could zero out a post botted up to $300. You're talking about some pretty heavy hitters for that to happen, and an alliance of such magnitude that's literally unprecedented on STEEM.
Even the haejin wars weren't able to bring that much SP to bear against him.
As far as flags go, I'm not aware that it's even possible to buy flags from vote bots. They're income is derived from the SBD/STEEM they get, plus the SP from curation. Some if not all of them may be paying for leasing delegation, too, so it's not likely they're going to waste their upvotes when they won't get SP in curation rewards. And if they did, they'd probably lose some if not a lot of their clientele, who use bots on a regular basis. It's not really in their best interests.
Having said all that, I'm not sure just what lasting effect such a post would have. I'm not sure what people would do with it. I don't know that it would stop the whale in question. It's a frustrating position for you to be in, that's for sure, and something should be done about it if all of it is true and verifiable on the blockchain. Will something be done?
I'll just say that the result of the haejin flag war is that he has the highest rep of all STEEM, which means that can't be damaged, and he's still pushing out a lot of posts a day while upvoting himself and a few others.
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I will say it depends on the whale. You know that people always varies in how theory behave
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