Reposting as Randowhale aka B.S. has censored the last version of this post.

I'm on hold as far as bringing new people to this platform.
I'm ashamed of the flagging wars.
I'm ashamed of the negative downvoting when people could be posting positively for content they like.
I'm ashamed to see the fighting over the reward pool.

Why does Steemit have such slow growth? I've been wondering this for a while and have a few theories.
One of them is the behaviour shown by B.S. amongst others, the flagging wars and the use of bots for abuse in general.

So, what happened this time?
B.S. (aka Randowhale) makes an abusive posts with swearing and accusing the steemit community of cowardice for not obeying his call to stamp on his chosen victims.
I didn't flag or downvote him - I just commented that his post (with swearing and threats) is no example for the community.
I also added that I was sure he'd show cowardice himself by censoring my comment.
He did.

He then also downvoted a random innocent travel post of mine.
Ironically the post he downvoted was a demo-post made as a teaching example to a new user. What will he think? How does this censoring come across to new users and old?
Is this an adult playground or a serious blogging platform for the conveying of thought, information and ideas?

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B.S's behaviour and his actions and the fact they are allowed, in my mind, represent a serious flaw in Steemit as a platform.
How can an account with a minus reputation be allowed to wield such power?

Look at the downvotes. Theses are all fake accounts - as in not run by a unique individual. All bots run by Randowhale aka Bernie Sanders

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Here is the original post. Harmless or needing to be flagged?

https://steemit.com/travel/@tarquinmaine/back-riding-a-350-bullet-in-india
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This post was to encourage my friend mentioned to post about his bike restorations.
How is my friend going to view this behaviour?
Playground bullying?
I'm on hold as far as bringing new people to this platform.
I'm ashamed of the flagging wars.
I'm ashamed of the negative downvoting when people could be posting positively for content they like.
I'm ashamed to see the fighting over the reward pool.

What do you guys think?

I got on steemit last year, played around for a minute, saw how it wasn't at all decentralized and had many flaws in the voting sytem(remember the @asshole?), kind of lost interest. Now I'm back again, mainly because this platform is a first mover and at least has some kind of payout mechanism involving crypto. I hate game theory. There's always some a-hole to come around and ruin it for everyone.

I Just try to stay positive and resonate with positive energy. D-tube is pretty cool. In addition, the sound and live aspects sound pretty neat. I'm hoping to play around with them here soon.

As far as recommending steemit, I still do. Especially for creative people on Facebook. I also include the caveat that it is not the be all, end all of crypto powered social networks, just the first. We'll see how it plays out. Thanks for sharing.

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bitsburgh (51) · 7 years ago

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embracingchaos (50) · 7 years ago

I find all these flagging wars really upsetting. I'm curious to see if steemit will actually be able to survive as a platform.

tarquinmaine (55) · 7 years ago

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I never blogged before Steemit so this is my first experience of cyberbullying. I guess time will tell...

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tarquinmaine (55) · 7 years ago (edited)