I voted for you....yep and there are two BULLIES who just attacked me as a new user....this is NUTS...these idiots are crashing STEEM....I hope people realize that this flag to remove money and articles by Cyber whales is BS and fascism...
Community Needs to Gang up and FLAG Everything "Bacchist" Has as a Thug and Bully
"Bacchist" is a user in Steemit and is a whale where he and others have decided to control the community, what they say and post. They are flagging everything they disagree with and trying to crush users.
The reality check is this activity is nothing more than what THUGS and Fascists do in a community. They have abused their trust in the community and it is time that users strike back and stop this flagging and crushing users whom they have posted they want to send a message to. DO not have free speech. Do not post what they disagree with. Do not post anything that questions Steem or Bitcoin - ever. Do not post anything that is Anti-Socialist or Pro-American.Fight back, track this user down and whack the bastard and this gang. Over one article, they suddenly removed my funds, removed the article, and then removed other articles not even related to Steem.
They then downgraded my Credibility rating from 40 to 6 in 2 hours. Guys, too bad many of you do not know about world history, but this activity is exactly the type of thing the NAZIS did to everyone in 1930 - 1933 when the NAZIS did not like what they said....they then beat people up...then they had them jailed..then killed....is Steemit a free and open community or is is controlled by these Bullies and Thugs which I just proved exist....send a message back to this guy and crush this BULLY and flag his ass to zero to say STOP this...stop the hate and BS....or people like this will crash the community and Steem very soon....frankly for what I see, Steemit business model needs to be changed and fast before people like this destroy it.
I am also a new user and have fallen victim to a gang of whales like that. They are destroying my page and have destroyed my earnings and rank over night. In two days i had went from 25-36 and when i woke up this morning i was a 7.7...
I see why you are downvoted after reading some of your posts. You are trying to basically spread fear. Just reevaluate why you are downvoted and open a discussion about it. Get involved in the community. Spamming everywhere doesn't help you.
Also, downvoting is NOT a good thing in steem...it gives to much power to too few with Steem Power....there should only be upvotes and nothing more...this is a huge flaw in Steemit that I will be writing about in Google soon....downvotes are a means for the minority to control what the majority have to say. In result,, there is no real fee speech in Steemit....thus until this changes, then Steemit will not attract many quality content writers and it will fail
beating up new users and calling them "cunts" and push them around to leave or indoctrinate them is not how the free market and free speech works, unless you are from a socialist state....then that is how people behave if you step out of line
Oh that is mature....have a nice day...
You can't anyway. Your tiny downvote makes zero impact relative to a millionaire. The only thing downvotes presently do is crush accounts at the whim of whales.
edit: I should say the tiny vote of krill and minnows, as you may not be a minnow. Don't know, don't care. If you're well off, good on ya. If you're not, welcome to the club.
Before Steemit? If you mean on sites like fakebook, then downvotes have a use case in indicating sentiment, although I reckon that just encourages people to remain divided, rather than to enter into civilized debate, which has potential to reach agreement.
But one downvote there can't have the kind of negative impact which it can here. Anyway, I don't fakebook for other reasons, censorship, propaganda, and data mining amongst the most salient.
I don't want to give the impression that I adhere to some kind of communistic policy, or advocate redistribution of your money to my bank account. I don't. I really don't care much about wealth, personally.
But I am unaware of a good reason for downvotes on Steemit in their present form. for spam, plagiarism, etc., a downvote that is based on reputation, rather than wealth, has a use case, and can easily be applied by the community I will allow that it is probably pretty satisfying to crush some asshole that has it coming. I'm not convinced that's a benefit to the community.
However, regardless of this guys statements having merit, which I am not implying, what benefit to Steemit is achieved by a whales downvote on his post?
Perhaps he will be silenced, cowed by the economic impact of the vote. I don't believe that makes Steemit better. There need to be diverse voices, or there is no point in conversation. I depend on people disagreeing with me to cause me to consider my opinions, and often am provided new information that does change my mind.
Perhaps he will go on a rampage (as he seems to be) and make every effort to rally like minded followers to start a flagging war. @dwinblood has well stated the undesirability of that result.
I just don't see that wealth weighted downvotes can be a positive for Steemit. You seem to feel that there is a beneficial purpose they can achieve (I make that assumption based on your correct statement that they are fully allowed and able to be cast within the rules of Steemit completely at will), so I ask that you explain why you feel that way.
I've actually asked some folks that feel that way, but never been answered, in a substantive way.
I was a stock analyst for many years....spreading fear? that is you opinion as I have an opinion about what i am seeing in many digital currencies right now...but that is no reason to beat up and stalk a person either...that is called Cyber Bullying...