The popularity of the group is worrisome to me because:
It entices people to join because it will help you get up votes, leading to lower quality posts getting up voted rather than the free market approach. Simply because "you are part of the group"
The group has the potential to overrun steemit and control all content. If that happens we will end up with a steemit that resembles facebook. Political views of a small group of moderators would take the front seat and could be influenced by governments and corporations.
Already socialist views are being favored because "filth" and "hate speech" are both subjective. Parents are responsible for the raising of their own children. If the free market ends up adding too much so called "hate speech and filth" to steemit, it would be the parents of the children who should decide if steemit.com is an appropriate site for their children to be on
Not everyone on steemit is a socialist, progressive, or liberal. Many of us are anarchists just like the creators of steemit. You guys are turning steemit into a facebook. The very thing many of us ran away from.
The potential to overrun steemit? There are 3000 users in the project and over 250,000 users on steemit? Of those 3000 users, there are no whales. It would only take one or two whales to stop 3000 minnows from having any impact on this platform so I am not sure where that logic comes from.
Upvoting amounts to around 0.70SBD a post. Pretty miniscule when there are larger users here upvoting their own posts of very poor quality for much larger sums. I think it's a pretty valued place where small users can support other small users. Anyone is free to be part of the group.
From what I understand, Steemit is supposed to be whatever the users want it to be. There will be community functionality added to the platform in the near future, so if you are worried about one community of users now, just wait until that change occurs. A community is a collective of like minded people. I would have no qualms if you were to start up your own 'anarchist' community where you could post whatever you like and offend, or not offend, whoever you liked.
My values are what I am guided by. If I want to access NSFW content, I know where to go. NSFW is included on this platform for users who want to access that content, is is hidden for users who wish it to be hidden. If I want to build a place where I would be happy to post and share my family and know its a caring place to be, then I know where to go for that too. If you want to post hate speech and other things, go and find somewhere on the platform where its ok. Just because one community doesn't find it acceptable and do not want you to post certain content there does not mean it is a 'socialist regime'. Just one that has its own set of social values.
The creators of steemit made it the place that it is today where you can do and create whatever you want. Upvoting and flagging is a feature for users to show their like or dislike of content. If that is not a social media platform that is controlled by users, then I don't know what is. This place is controlled by the users and can be whatever we want it to be. Just because one section of the platform is not what you want it to be doesn't make it ok to slander that community because of their values.
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^ what he said ... not to mention the OP is completely off the mark here ... I swear the guys behind MSP are Libertarians and not lefties ... Peace Abundance Liberty much?
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You might as well argue with the wall. You'll get far better responses
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My 3 year old presents a better argument..... Look I'm Elsa!
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:-D
Why let facts get in the way of a good argument?
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Dude, I never include my posts when commenting on over people's but feel I need to in this instance. I'm very happy to be a member of MSP and have only ever received help from all those involved including guys like @gmuxx & @tremendospercy who have commented on here. I have never seen or heard of censorship in any way, shape or form. Here is my post and if you think it represents a liberal, socialist or progressive mindset then please let me know: https://steemit.com/politics/@perceptualflaws/the-left-right-mindset-and-the-pendulum-of-authoritarianism-the-left
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