So, if I flagged you for subjective reasons, you would be fine with that? This is not a threat, but a question.
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So, if I flagged you for subjective reasons, you would be fine with that? This is not a threat, but a question.
People are going to do what they do, especially when it comes to blockchains and the internet. I can't control it nor will I let it have a huge emotional impact on me. At worse, if I find the environment not to be to my liking, I can and will leave, but even that isn't terribly likely on the basis of someone's opinion to flag something.
If you, me, or someone else have differences of opinion about something, we can discuss it and/or the blockchain and voting algorithms will sort it out. Or if we're not okay with that, we can leave. We don't need to turn it into a war (of words or otherwise).
I don't wage wars I have no chance of winning. I wish people would keep their flags to themselves. The more power you have the more responsibility you have to the community. To the ideal of free speech, or censorship resistant.
People don't have to leave if they don't like it. They can try to speak and use their influence, reason and hope that people are "big" enough to at least consider a different perspective.
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I never supported the idea of unconditionally hiding posts based on flags/downvotes. I consider it a form of censorship and would like to see it either removed, or made a configurable option (as was recently done for NSFW; a huge improvement). When I downvote, I do so for the purpose of expressing my opinion on how rewards should be allocated. Sometimes I'm voting using the CLI wallet which expresses votes as a number between -100 to 100. The flag icon and hiding are features of the steemit.com UI which don't exist on the blockchain and I decline to consider as a constraint on how I choose to transact with the system.
Nods, that is clear and a position I can respect.