I think all the whales should start flagging, flagging, flagging!
This would in fact help distribution to minnows a lot more, same way during the "flagging experiment" minnows were making a lot more when the big upvotes were being countered by automatic flags.
Enough with the (circle-jerk) upvoting!
I'm guessing you meant this to the majority, but since you seemed to make it personal at the end of your comment I just wanted to drop in this statistic that shows where most of my votes go. These are my outgoing votes for the last 4 months.
Think the person made too much money? Flag!
Yes, as the #1 reason to flag is disagreement of rewards, that's naturally what they should be doing, and more of it so it becomes a norm and people don't get as easily offended by only a few doing it and direct their anger at them.
Stop voting and start flagging.
If most whales started flagging, minnows would probably be making 1000% more curation rewards.
This is the thrill of censorship and the reason most of us came here
Flags are not censorship, the posts don't get deleted from the blockchain ever.
Didn't you even try to make friends at your Fest?
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I'm glad you vote for the little guys - thank you! I do see you on the posts of little guys more than most and I know that takes effort. We appreciate you from down here more than you can imagine.
All I know is that it is very dismal down in minnowland where few make rep 45 and fewer go beyond that. We rarely hear from whales at all - but when we do - they are fighting again.
Censorship make not make an individual post go away, but if the person leaves the platform, the censorship worked.
I don't get your math (or understand much about the money here) but if flagging each other would make the rewards trickle down farther - you have my full permission to keep battling it out.
Steemit equals Fight Club. And you are all the same person maybe???
Them fighting means that they care about the future of the platform, even more so than those just placing autovotes and rewarding the same authors constantly without caring what is going on. Especially if they flag they are sacrificing curation rewards so that the daily distribution of rewards goes to everyone else instead, such as minnows.
That's not censorship, if they leave because of a few flags that have removed some of their pending payouts, that's their problem. Flags are there for a reason even though those reasons can consist of many different things.
I haven't seen many minnows who write quality content and low rewards get flagged for disagreement of rewards, have you?
All flags I've seen so far from the usual suspects casting them have been on users already in the top earning lists, and the way they have reacted to a few dollars being removed from their posts has been nothing less than disgusting.
Think of the reward pool as a pie, if your mother tells you you can't have 2 pieces and instead shares that piece among all 8 of you without getting a piece for herself.
Are you accusing me of being someone else on the platform doing the flags?
No, no. lol. I am not accusing any of you of anything - especially not you. I'm an accountant anyway and do not make accusations at all.
I'm just saying a good half of the bigs are anons so isn't that the theme of fight club? Not knowing who you are?
No I am not seeing flagging of little guys - although if more flagging occurred on the bot comments and "nices" that might help.
The people I ran into being flagged in the last couple of days did not seem to be the "usual suspect" types, but I will yield to your better knowledge on that.
Like jerrybanfield told me and like I did not listen to today - "ignore the whales and the administration and just post your content." I'm going back to it and let you all fight it out until someone falls.
I'm in the weight loss and social media marketing niches and steemit has pulled me into all other kinds of distractions. Today being a great example.
I still love michelle's writing and her awesome example and tutorials for authors like me. I'm really disappointed in this turn of events. If she's scheming the rewards - which I have no idea - it's not like she's the only one.
Like I said - knock yourselves out - collectively! We'll get Brad Pitt and make a movie.
With the "usual suspects" I meant the usual bigger accounts that do the flagging.
Exactly, he didn't cry or whine about a few flags or quit the platform cause of it.
Being on autovotes doesn't mean she's undeserving of the votes she gets and I'm sure it took a lot of work to get there, same with my account. But her reaction to 1 flag which later lead to more flags was what was the most disappointing to me, especially from a user that has been here as long as most of us oldtimers.
I might have to recommend people to re-read the whitepaper every now and then.
I've been following jerry for a long time on a few platforms and he definitely rolls with the punches. He is a roll model for me just like michelle is.
Note to self - If I ever succeed enough to get a flag here - do not react in a way to cause more flags. Lord, give me strength.
And as to white papers or blue ones or smt ones. Ergh...
I totally understand resistance to reading the blue paper (highly technical) and the SMT papers (highly technical)^2 but the white paper...
You said you were an accountant. The white paper should not be a difficult read for you.
Oh please do not tell Jerry is a role model - would make me really sad - he is good in self promoting bull shit and has a thick skin, that is true. But that is all I would consider positive about him
He's helped me a lot for a couple of years - all for free. One day soon, I might even publish the course I have 80% done thanks to his free tutorials.
I like jerry because he keeps going no matter what and he's goofy and he takes credit for his mistakes and tries to fix them.
Jerry's enthusiasm is the reason I joined steemit in June after putting it on my list to look into in April. That and a few key tsusers suggesting it.
I'm glad I joined no matter what. My traffic is up everywhere and I have lots of new connections on all platforms. Some people are even interested in hearing my weight loss info! This makes all the crazy effort worth it.
My first fiction post ever, back when I was a tiny minnow, got whale slapped by blocktrades. So there are minnows who get attention from whales. I know of several others who also had variously sized whale slaps on quality posts.
Then I had some posts get OCDed and I got acidyo love.
So don't say whales only fight or don't interact with minnows.
You are right - I'm too much in the all or nothing in these comments. Of course there is good in all groups and I get that good attention too at times fropm big fish. That's why I'm here - for the interaction at all levels. How sad for that to happen when you were new here! Good for you to keep going when that happened. What was your crime or is that too personal?