RE: Peter Schiff vs Erik Voorhees
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Peter Schiff vs Erik Voorhees
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flagging for spam (gif spam is loud and annoying)
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That's a tacky flag, and the guy is new. Why not just ask him
nicely not to post .gif(t)s on your posts? Then he can decide 4
himself if he wants to follow you or not, seeing as how you'd
like to dictate his ability to comment how he sees fit. Steem
is what you make of it. Lets make it better than a place where
people fear to speak their minds to those who have more SP.
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I flagged on 1% (or something like that, I was on my phone) for the purpose of lowering its visibility on my post.
IMO it's tacky and weird to come in concerned about something so trivial as that. Someone spammed my blog, so I clicked flag.. not much to see here.
"speak their minds" has nothing to do with spamming a gif because they want to spray comments to get an upvote. People disagree with me lots on here and I always welcome it and even upvote it.
It's nice to assume the best and pretend he's a genuine user, but spam has its downside. I'll use my flag against spam as I wish.
It's a new account but likely not a new user.
If you're really concerned about this, keep your eye on his account and if after a while he proves to be a genuine user, let me know and I'll remove the flag.
::rolls eyes::
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Fair enough, I can see why you may have thought it was spam. His intro was a little short, but the second post seems an earnest attempt to create content. To be honest, I've been listening to this debate between Schiff and Voorhees for the last hour or so and that .gif that he posted pretty much sums up exactly how I feel.
I don't know who is right or wrong in this debate. Whether or not to anticipate excitement or dread with respect to the future success or failure of bitcoin. I'll tell you this much the enemy of my enemy is my friend and the banks are the enemy. Big question is long term viability and who is right, time will tell I suppose.
UPDATE: 1535 CST
Yeah, initially you flagged at 1%. Since making the above comment you reflagged at 11%.
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So? lol.
I was responding to your criticism and saying that what you were concerned about was a 1% flag.
After that, ya, like I said my motivation for flagging was to clean the litter and not make it visible in my post's comments. So when I saw that it was visible I changed the flag.
Not sure what you liked or wanted to reward about a pointless spam post, but that's the chain of events.
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Well, if the comment wasn't spam (and I think that it was not), then you effectively soft-censored what he had to say on platforms like Steemit who dither and hide posts that drop below 0.00.
It seems to me like an uncool way to treat a newcomer to the blockchain. It's your ship though, sail it how and where you please. Most people are leaving the major platforms because of the censorship tactics.
Collectively it would be wise for us Steemians to use the flagging tool in such a way where we don't become in any way similar to them.
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Before you had said fair enough. So your only gripe is the 11% aspect?
I don't really get it. It's obviously spam to me. Maybe I'm wrong, you're entitled to your impression of his post. But it seemed like spam so I click d flag.
::shrugs::
I'm entitled to my impression of it too. If you care about the platform, I'd suggest respect that someone who has used it for a longtime and is invested in the platform can throw a flag at what seems like spam on their posts.
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It wasn't spam, the .gif(t) of an image that you were given was on the topic of your post. He was showing some love by taking the time to interact with you.
Now if I went to his account and looked into the comments that he made and the same image was posted repeatedly, In a case like that it would be legit spam.
I don't know, maybe we just have different ideas about what spam is.
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