Name and Shame Pt. 1 : The Only Way to Stop a Whale - @infovore - Delusions of the Nouveau Whales #steemit

in #steemit9 years ago (edited)

Bullying of @jennamarbles


So after some reflection I was pretty appalled by @infovore 's behaviour, flagging me to death for "distracting" font - directly contradicting the anti-censorship philosophy espoused in the whitepaper.

Especially given the only ground for censorship was that he didn't like my use of h4 tags. I insulted no one, I was polite and my language was correct.


This blatant arrogance, and disregard for principles is the result of showering a teenager with $60,000 of wealth in an country, particularly so, in a country where that is the equivalent of about $300,000+.

Alas, I was a teen too, and I was a truly self-important, inflated little boy, so I can imagine my conduct had I been pumped with unearned value.


You have created an African-Napoleon that will roam Steemit and censor at his whim, because he is so empowered.

Remember when I warned you this would happen on the $40k post? Alas, I was right.


I really wish, people would consider the effect of showering children with wealth.

In fact, @infovore 's delusion was such that he felt the socio-moral superiority to say he's "disappointed in me".

Steemit will see mass-adoption so long as some blogs are well rewarded, yet this will become a place infested with: sadness, anger, and will lead to a higher incidence of suicide - as people are played with like little toys by the singular delusions of these nouveau whales.

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I can only imagine what will a teenage boy do with 50k, earned in a snap from a few posts. I don't really have an idea on how can we tackle this...

Well I was a teenage boy with $100k back when that was closer to $250k in today's dollars.
Three things I remember about that time of my life...
#1 Hookers, or girls who were cheap anyways.
#2 Nice car
#3 Lots and lots of pharmaceutical research.

And how did that influenced you?

We're still sorting that out. Seems like the long term effects have evolved into a strange addiction to a website named steemit. But it took years to get this bad. ;)

Not give them $50k

How can we know who they are?

@positive more tools are coming. You should see what I have planned for the steemitisnotacasino crowd. Imagine a bot that follows you around steemit letting folks know you downvoted because you were jealous that someone got on trending. I mean why upvote someone who keeps a policy of downvoting anyone who gets more money than they do :)

Same bot could be adapted to similar style police and anyone else that wants to censor rather than participate.

It does seem to be bizarre behavior. If using the markdown was a problem it should not have been put in. So now there is a style and composition police? For times when someone flags you on the completely trivial there should be some sort of grievance procedure.

I would agree. This is beyond absurd!

I am lucky enough to only have one downvote. It was a powerful one. https://steemit.com/steemit/@iamwne/a-little-pain-a-little-pleasure-steemit-bondage. It got killed immediately. There is one picture on it that was perhaps a bit risky. But if you read that post it is pretty clearly not a sexual article. But I have seen articles that are pass and make a little money. I did get replies that we supportive of the article. I don't regret the attempt. I try to be bold with my prose at times. Sometimes you are going to strike out but personally I don't think it is that bad.

@positive Hey mind changing the pic from hitler to something else on these posts? You're godwining your own threads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Also I find the hitler effigy a bit offensive in this regard because none of these guys are calling for the extermination of an entire race.

Thanks!

I would. But it has positive clickbait value, and gets the point across effectively.

Thanks for fixing that bud I really appreciate it!

It really doesn't though. It's genuinely offensive to look at when attached to something like this and Mao or Stalin would be far more appropriate and probably a hell of a lot more clickbaity. I also hear Kim Jung Un also has some pictures out there on the internet somewhere. I'd like my curation reward to be maximized, please fix. :)

Kim Jung is a Good idea!

Dude, those Kim Jung cartoons are perfect. Where the heck did you find them?