Steemit Is Ruled By A Communist Party - Flags Wars Look Worse To Investors Than The Rampant Abuse They Claim To "Fight"

The current flags wars going on across Steem are a terrible look for investors, especially in light of the fact that they are based wholly on reward amounts without even an attempt to analyze quality. They are run like drumhead trials, with little evidence provided and much of it fabricated.

At least this guy attempts to follow due process when possible.

My fundamental problem with "reward pool rape" as a concept is that it's basically Communist. Absent any logical argument wherein you analyze the quality of the work in question and provide actual auditable evidence, any accusation that someone is "raping" the reward pool, outside of plagiarism/actual shitposts, is an arbitrary opinion puffed up with deliberately provocative language to paint the "target" in the worst possible light, hoping to create a dog-piling effect.

The entire argument rests on the fallacy that there is some arbitrary amount of reward that is "too much", and the abusive anti-abusers are the apparent sole arbiter of how much that is. (Oh, and they won't tell you what that is before you cross it, either.)

Don't worry, the rules don't apply to them. They're better than you, just like the PARTY.

Flaggers, you've made it impossible to support you because you fail to respect those you claim to be protecting enough to provide even a shred of unbiased evidence that what you do is right. You type out all-caps rants with foul language, and you promote them to the #1 spot on all of Steemit, yet you look like nothing more than an autistic child. While operating this way, you remain many of the single largest and greediest voters on the platform, and no doubt rake-in more than the vast majority of posters combined between your hypocritical services and your self-voting buffets.

Your morals are also transparently self-serving, and instantly for sale when a price feed changes.

"Sometimes when I try to understand a person's motives, I play a little game. I assume the worst. What's the worst reason they could possibly have for saying what they say and doing what they do? Then I ask myself, "How well does that reason explain what they say and what they do?"

There are like 10 more of these, at least. You are being played for fools.

It quickly becomes clear why these "champions" of voting abuse want to control the actions of others - that way, they can do it a lot more themselves. It's called barriers to entry, and I covered it in Code Is Law.

To properly justify taking an actual action (flagging) one must make this argument about reward vs quality, in a capitalistic fashion, or essentially render oneself a communist Comrade who assigns resources "to each according to their needs." If one fails to do this, one creates a result where all top talent will go elsewhere, and you will be left with the mediocre dregs without ambition.

It's called brain-drain, and it happened to every single Communist country. Ever. It's fucking obvious to all but the most idiotic. Einstein don't work for Gomer Pyle pay.

I took my brain elsewhere for 3 weeks after this. It was too good for Steemit.

In the most recent, highest-profile disagreement currently still underway, not only has lip service not been paid to an argument against quality, but the actual rewards being earned by a certain individual (Haejin) have been (deliberately or accidentally) overstated by a factor of 10x, which "coincidentally" serves the purposes of the "attackers" just perfectly, since logic, reason, and due process appear to be the furthest thing from their minds.

The closest anyone has come to an actual analysis of the quality of the content in question is mocking charts and TA, but no argument analyzing numbers and results has been proferred. I know, because I looked into it myself, and the facts would lay waste to the attackers arguments. (Note that I do not have a large enough sample size to prove statistical validity.)

Actual ROI of ~25 previous calls from "the Flagee".

The result is that both sides of this argument are now off the rails, and the followers of the "attacked" are now lashing out at random targets without doing their due diligence or proving their points. This is no surprise, as their "man" was subjected to this treatment first.

Now, witnesses are losing support because they are afraid to come out on either side. They are held captive by large votes from these same "anti-abuse abusers," in a sort of soft-terrorism.

These "anti-abusers" cloak themselves in "doing good for the reward pool" while offering no logical argument supported with evidence, just base appeals to emotion. This conceals what they do in the appearance of support of the masses, who are mostly idiots and lacking any knowledge of the facts anyway.

They should join these guys; they will fit right in.

They knows this will work because almost everyone on the platform thinks they aren't getting the rewards they deserve, so if a "bogeyman" can be constructed they can blame for it, populist political tactics can be simply applied.

Had evidence been produced that showing Haejin's calls were no better than picking at random, I'd likely support such "anti-abuse" work, as a lack of objective quality would have been established.

Regardless of who is right in this debate, I can tell you exactly what it looks like to an investor.

Any investor that looks at Steem sees almost nothing but negativity towards them. If they choose to sell their vote, self-vote, or run a bot for profit, they receive plenty of crap from various members of the community, including those who flag solely for bot use.

In other words, the main thing that ANY INVESTOR WILL LOOK AT, POTENTIAL ROI, is shut-down by Steemit's Social Justice Warriors at every turn.

Now, they can't even expect to vote on content they like and support an author without being subject to witch-hunting and massive drama, actually hurting the author they initially hoped to support.

Why the hell would you invest here if you weren't an author, instead of one of the (literal hundreds) of other coins that have next to no drama and are performing massively better?

The market is wondering that too, as Steem is outperformed by nearly every coin on the Coinmarketcap list this last 6 months.

Investors pay the rewards. This toxic culture must end, or Steem will.

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