Hello! There seems to be some confusion on what exactly #doyourpart is all about. I can't speak for everyone, but I'll try to explain how I see it.
Our mission is to flag spam posts, but what does this mean exactly? If you see a post and don't like it, you are obviously free to flag it. I can't stop you; it's all about freedom around here in this decentralized blockchain land.
But that's not what #doyourpart is about. It is not about flagging posts that you don't like.
There are four main categories of posts that we want to flag:
Tag Abuse:
There are two types of this: Tag spam and Incorrect Tags.
Tag spam is easy. It's when the poster includes dozens of tags, many of which have nothing to do with the post, trying to game the system and gain attention for themselves. An incorrect tag would be posting a sexy girl picture in "bitcoin" or posting an article about bitcoin in "introduceyourself". You are placing the wrong material in the wrong place.
Plagerism:
This is posting material from some other source and claiming it as your own. You should always give credit and site your source and preferably link to the original material. I don't usually flag for this myself, so I'll let others talk about this more.
Duplicate posts:
This is reposting the same material over and over again. If I see the same thing posted three or more times in the same day, I'll definitely flag it. If I see the same thing posted two weeks later, I'd probably be fine with that, but I'll admit it's a judgement call.
Blatant Begging
In some sense, we are all begging a little bit. I'd be tickled pink if this post got voted up to the high heavens, but I'm trying to provide some value in return. Blatant begging is just when you post some very silly, no effort post saying something like "Whales please vote me up! This post is worthless, but vote me up to prove that a worthless post can make thousands!" I don't know, this might be the most subjective one, but I'll down vote these on sight.
Anyway, that's my interpretation of #doyourpart , and my thinking when I go on flagging patrol.
whale whale whale . what do we have here?
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Great points! Lets beg in a healthy way :)
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I do agree with you, freedom of speech is important on a decentralized platform, but when things really get annoying, its better to delete.
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How about Blatant Begging like this?
https://steemit.com/doyourpart/@calamus056/my-first-4-flagging-cases
Its got naked chicks for no reason, and "look at me I'm a do gooder", just begging for money.
Kind of hypocritical if you ask me.
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I don't see that post as a blatant begging post. Looks like it got flagged though, so I guess someone was on the job. ;)
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Especially like the blatant begging removal since it tends to be people complaining after mass posting mediocre posts that were copied and pasted from another source. And the initiative to pay people to do this shows that those with a lot invested here care how the community is perceived. Better content and less spam keeps people using steemit and gives a high retention rate leading to value even farther down the road.
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Steemit still in the beta stage. Anything goes but once we have a better guide line we will adjust to it and make it better.
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¿It is well marked? review it please , the span tag! @neoxian
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@maona/travel-my-pictures-spain#@maykor15/re-maykor15-re-maona-travel-my-pictures-spain-20160724t172408577z
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I agree on all the categories, but personally I would add porn/sex/sexy pics and similars. We were already discussing this under my post (I don't know why, it does not let me reply there, the reply button does not appear under your last comment, so I'll just reply here).
I would still flag that kind of content, even with #pornboobs and #nsfw tags, because it will still appear in new (created) "content" and could even get to trending, possibly. And it does not add any value to the website or the community. We are paid to CREATE AND CURATE CONTENT, and as I said under my post, I fail to see where is the content in sharing sexy or naked girls' pics (even more when after the pic it's just empty space).
If you don't consider it part of #doyourpart, I won't count those posts in my compilation posts, anyway, only the 4 categories you list here in this post. I'll still flag them at sight. @neoxian
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" personally" Yea, that's the problem. This isn't about personal preferences. We definitely have a philosophical difference here. If #doyourpart is about censorship, then count me out of it. Indeed, if Steemit is about censorship, count me out of that too. The reason why I'm here is for the censorship resistant, decentralized blockchain. If I want some regular forum, I'll just go back to reddit.com.
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See what happens... This well intentioned project turned into a personal bias downvote brigade in less than a week. The goody goody hall monitors are coming, and they are still pissed off from being friendless in high school... You think what they've done to reddit is bad, just wait until they realize they can get money from it here. (like this guy, blocking correctly tagged things that offend him for personal\religious\political reasons)
I posted a suggestion that allows users to fix this themselves, without creating little censorship clicks downvoting everything and bragging about it everywhere. https://steemit.com/steemit/@tinfoilfedora/instead-of-creating-automated-censorship-tools-allow-the-users-to-fix-the-problem-through-curation
If nothing else, it would be easier than trying to police every post.
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I'm on the same page with you @tinfoilfedora, if #doyourpart becomes what you describe, I'll leave it and just flag on my own using the criteria above.
I read your post; agreed. If we had better user side filtering features, then a lot of this flagging wouldn't be necessary.
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You should publicly ask for the account features you think are necessary. Quickly, before this crap gets out of hand.
I have already ticked off the whales\developers for talking bluntly about website problems and politics, so you will probably have better luck. Feel free to repost the 3 feature fix or any part of it.
Just try to get people talking about adding user controls instead of censorship and moderation, before the goody two shoes brigades form and ruin this place.
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