Subjectivity is a strange thing, and regulating it, thats even stranger. but what of it? Its a social platform and we are trying to interact, and these interactions are subjective
Lets get Defined
Some examples on how bullshit this is
So, lets consider what happens when we are trying to express ourselves but certain idea's are not worth hearing about,
If it's election time, and everyone starts to express one liners about the election is that spam? consider twitter feeds before, during and after an election.
If theres a popular overused Meme, and we use it? do we get taken as spam?
so in this case has this Steemcleaner taken it upon themselves to tell me my opinion is worth less because I don't have as many followers or steem power?
I think honesty is important, So let me ask, don't we see people in some topics posting very similar messages sometimes several times a day? we are all on the platform and it's not that big I think we can think of examples
if we are meant to have a community and now whether you like it or not some communities you are going to disagree with, but is it right to just go around blindly flagging people, what is that about?
there may be something in the post that you disagree with but what constitutes spam?
I looked through the steemcleaners comments and replies after not receiving a reply after 4.5 hrs and realise its not a stand alone case, I can see a post where a guy gets done for mentioning fuacets and linking to a couple sites
EDIT: Just wanted to thank the nice person who read this post and removed their flag, it was really nice of you to do, very humble thing to do, Thank you :)
thank you to the nice person who suprisingly listened to my rant and removed their flag, I really wasnt expecting that but thank you very much, very kind and humble and extremely appreciated, I feel like my wall is great again
The guy getting done is me ;-)
I see more and more mentions of bots (which is what steemcleaners is, that's why you don't get a reply) arbitrarily downvoting and actually abusing their power.
I completely agree with what you're saying and have expressed that in this post: https://steemit.com/proposal/@blevley/issue-with-downvoting-bots
A resteem would be nice so we can get this on the agenda.
If this keeps up we will see the platform failing quickly, new users will hear of these practices and decide to join other networks.
We need to come together as a community NOW and stop this practice of unbridled downvoting-bots.
EDIT: the bitcoin links I mentioned in my original post that was downvoted take quite some time, but my LISK faucet is dripping away, already at almost 4 euros in just a few days ;-)
Hey bro I actually saw your post, I had a whole second section that I actually went through your post that got downvoted and your comment, unfortunately the rest of the video didnt make it in, but im glad you stopped in, Yours is a good one, its too long for some but some people its a thing to do, regardless of how people think you shouldnt be spammed to be told your not spamming,
I'm not sure if they really are bots, I think Steemcleaners is actually a small group of people, and thats partially why I think it wouldnt hurt to start a small dialogue first and downvote second if its justified etc, but there is no process at the moment, with severe repercussions, their single downvote in which they didnt read mine or your post, dismissed atleast 15 peoples legitimate upvotes in my case and i would assume plenty of yours too, anyways, i feel like theyre treading into some subjective territory and obviously some topics are just not tolerated
Heeyyyyyy!!!!😡😡😡 Those assholes downvoted me and cost me 6 levels of reputation. That was one weeks work worth. In my opinion those assholes all define spam as trying to catch up to them so they fucking push us down. They frikkin spam but want a chance to be a power so flag us. They never had a fucking chance to be slightly important in life before so thet are trying to do so now. Curse those mother fuckers. Someday I'll buy enough steem and form a grouo with others who want revenge and we will all blast them with flags to hell. Yeah!
you know bro there was a second section to this video that my audio fucked up and i couldnt include, but this is the kind of sentiment it breeds, I think there should be some kind of process before hitting something with that, I mean we are all people right, we should be able to discuss something on a social platform I reckon
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Whoever flags you, write their name down because you must keep them blacklisted until you can fuck em up