So I found a post called "How I became a professional Steemit flagger" It was a trash fire of intellectual dishonesty. In this post the user was justifying flagging other content for fun in fact the post was in the funny category. This user had some weak reasons to use it's steem power to attack minnows and the user was proud of it.
I decided to flag his post as the user found it so amusing to flag I thought the user would like to be flagged. It was in revenge the user flagged one of my posts a random harmless post about something minnows suffer from you know helping new users. This post was then upvoted by the minnow support group and it wiped out his flag.
BUT THE WARNING HERE IS SOME PEOPLE WILL ABUSE THEIR FLAGGING AND WE HAVE NO RECOURSE
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In the past there have been accounts mass flagging for no reason. There are usually users in #steemitabuse that will help.
I help low SP weight users on a case by case basis. I do not get involved in content disputes or any instance where someone has flagged another person with a reason, whether that reason is right or wrong in my opinion.
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You are more likely to have someone tell you, "if you don't like it build your own, the software is open-source" than tell you they are doing something wrong. If you read the White Papers it clearly states abuse is not discouraged and is also considered to be creating content. So....
I totally understand what you're saying though. Feel free to check out my feed, where I have addressed several issues relating to this as well as resteemed content relating that I found to be informative and worth spreading.
Best of luck in your future adventures!
Besides, I think 'flag wars' are going to spring up any time there is a flood of newcomers learning the ropes. Seems to be a natural part of the system's evolution (and a luxury afforded to high-investors).
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From the whitepaper:
Abuse that affects the value of STEEM/SBD and the success of the platform is discouraged.
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Thank You, though (through my eyes anyway, the short time I have been here) it sure seems their interpretation of "rampant abuse" is fairly loose considering I see more of it than I do legitimate promoting (in fact, the more successful of the questionable ones can post complete spam and their network will support it with their upvotes and comments etc. - it's not even about content any more so much as it is about controlling a Network of Accounts really).
At least there seems to be more and more exposure and resistance to it, yet if it amounts to nothing it's just playing tag (and let's face it, one person controlling multiple accounts of high value can crush even a large band of resistant others... and do we really think those resisting should have to use up their voting power flagging or suffer being flagged for exposing abusive people? Seems the ones suffering the most are the newcomers who have barely anything to build on to begin with).
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