I have been on steemit for just over a year now. In which time I have enjoyed the ride for most of my time here. However, every now and then the harsh I would say unfair FLAGGING pops up and I lose lots of sbd (money) that I try hard to earn as a small fish. Since, I don’t have bags full of cash ,I would be a small fish for a long time . Recently, I have been flagged by steemit accounts that have been here much less on steemit then I have been. All because they more steempower (bought with money from outside) . The reasons are unclear for the flagging . I have sent massages asking the reasons with no answer at all . (I think an answer should be given every time someone flags another)
- From what I have deduced I was flagged, because I have been using upvote bots who upvote posts after post are 3.5 days old. If a post pays out in 7 days it means it can be upvoted within the 7 days or else the platform can just stop upvoting after 3.5day and still pay out in 7 days.
What I would like to know where did this rule come from. Is it that the bigger fish need something to do so they make up their own rules?. Or is it that they get something out of it ? - I was flagged again .I reason was I was told I have been copy/pasting. This is untrue as my post was not even in English. So what can I do about it .JACK .
I love using steemit and for most it is away to earn extra money. Sometimes its people with a lot of money that can make things or break things. All I am asking is that rules be set and no new ones made by others that can make steemit a nasty place. So If there is someone listening and can make a difference please help.
It should not be such that the big fish eat all the small fish, just because they can.
If you are talking about the @steemcleaners flag, I reckon that William Butler Yeats poem you presented as your own might have something to do with this.
People read that and voted for it - as they should because it's well written. But it wasn't you who wrote it, so you are fraudulently tricking those people out of their votes, and taking from money from the reward pool that could be going to someone more honest.
I've been here a month and I understand this. You've been here a year...
Well that explains that. People, I tell you what. Also, how do you get to a 67 rep with behavior like that?!
I have an idea of how they escaped the attention of @cheetah, though you'll understand if I don't share that publicly. It's clear that those voting on these sort of posts have either no knowledge of the original material or no care that it's plagiarised.
I hope this is only a recent feature of this account - because if it isn't, it doesn't bode well for the future of real content producers on this network.
bro you got downvote because copy/paste, you translate someone English article into another language through google translate. this is not your work it's clear copy/paste. stop this bro and did you know your @awriter and @masyl account also in danger so be careful.
change articles on @awriter and @masyl account otherwise you will get flagged there too.
not my accounts ,my friends
Hey there!
There's no rules, per se, except what is enforced by custom. In general, I believe some of the whales, and I happen to agree with them, think that the use of upvote bots does, by definition, assign value unnaturally to posts. Upvote bots are paid for their votes, and the posts themselves may or may not actually have value to human users. If the goal of the whales is to increase the attraction of Steemit to folks who create the highest possible content, they want to discourage use of upvote bots.
I hope this makes sense! Nothing in Steemit is ever set. It is an ocean with waves and tides, ever-changing.
understood then why allow upvote bots in the first place
Because how are you going to forbid them? It's decentralized, which means no one is in charge, but folks with more $$ have more power, so all they can do is punish behavior they don't like, not prevent the behavior from existing in the first place.