RE: De-Spinning the Spin - The real truth

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De-Spinning the Spin - The real truth

in hive-100421 •  5 years ago 

Are you aware that people have been downvoted because they made a post about "I tried a vegan diet and it made me sick"?

This doesn't seem to qualify as "plagiarism, copy-pasta, low effort posting, spam, bid-botting or personal attacks".

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I downvoted Justin Sun's "witness voting policy" and several other things of his because I thought he was a dick who is messing with our blockchain and pissing me off.
I don't do that often, but I consider the downvote to be a vital part of the free expression that we enjoy here on Steem.

What real-world action would you consider a "downvote" equivalent?

Sticking my tongue out at him, or making some other rude gesture.

Only if that knocks money-tokens out of their hand and makes them silent and or invisible.

In my case, it costs them 1¢ and what they do next is their business.

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You do have "control or influence" by punishing people for what you consider "inappropriate behavior".

That's your entire argument in favor of downvoting.

Downvoting gives you "control and influence".

Wouldn't unjustified downvotes (like "vegan wars") qualify as "personal attacks" and or "harassment"?

Would you consider downvoting unjustified downvoters?

People are free to use their stake as they please, that's what Steem power is, you have a set amount of influence to decide how the reward pool can be used.

I don't agree with flagging over "vegan wars" (Not even sure what that is, I assume it is anti-vegan or the opposite).

I can assure you I don't downvote for petty things like that, but I have no influence on other people's stake.

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If you downvoted people for harassing the innocent with their downvotes, that would deter harassment (which you are ostensibly against).

You use your downvotes to punish people who make personal attacks (and that's awesome).

Why not use your downvotes to punish people who make personal attacks (with their downvoting power)?

If you say "people are free to use their stake as they please", aren't self-voters "using their stake as they please"?

Aren't spammers using their resource credits (earned from their steem-power) "using their stake as they please"?

I'm not sure why you would be eager to downvote for one form of harassment but NOT for another form of harassment.

I can assure you I don't downvote for petty things like that,

Fantastic.

I have no idea why people downvote, usually the person complaining is not telling the whole story. I can't figure out every downvote (which there are a lot of) who is right or wrong. It would be an absolute nightmare to police every downvote.

I am not any authority figure or moderator, I am just another user like you and everyone else using my stake as I feel benefits the platform as a whole and aligns with my interests.

You are a de facto authority figure and or moderator, you manage community blacklists and have the power to deny rewards and hide all posts of accounts you personally disprove of.

You even use that (copyrighted footage) movie clip of THOR wielding "the ban-hammer".

Only a de facto mod has the power to influence view-ability of posts and comments on OTHER PEOPLE'S blogs.

I am just a large stake holder willing to sacrifice my time and stake to make the rewards more balanced. Nothing more nothing less.

You even use that (copyrighted footage) movie clip of THOR wielding "the ban-hammer".

You should look into and understand Fair Use Doctrine

Only a de facto mod has the power to influence view-ability of posts and comments on OTHER PEOPLE'S blogs.

Again, I am not a mod, I am just a stake holder that wasted thousands of hours of my person time to help balance rewards only to be shit on by trolls and spammers.

You should look into and understand Fair Use Doctrine

I know what fair-use is, but steemcleaners will downvote you for neglecting to provide attribution links for images (even free pixabay images).

I don't see any source credit or attribution links here -

https://steemit.com/buildawhale/@buildawhale/buildawhale1583512430

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