Great video. Shared on fakebook. Anyone vegans out there wanna have some fun? Firstly let’s find a vegan whale or two or potential investor and let’s set up an account with delegated by Steem a sbd downvote posts that have recipes and pictures that include dead flesh and even any animal products! Anyone?
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thanks a lot! In terms of down voting, AFAIK it is only supposed to be used to filter out spam and illegal content and is frowned upon using it to censor posts you don't like. I think commenting saying that it is horrible is probably a good idea though because people usually take comments more seriously on steemit than youtube. I'll do this now!
Firstly I am still learning about this site and after a long conversation with @ura-soul (which is now up on his channel) my understanding is that down voting can be used however anyone sees fit. It’s an anarchic structure and we can choose to use it abs we like. Besides, one of the reasons we can flag is abusive material. If there was child porn or violent content showing babies on a spit, we could would and should downvote. So why not pictures of dead lamb? I think it’s a fun way to go and fully justified. I’m going to write about it shortly.
yeah, definitely a good point. I guess it just comes back down to battling the status quo and the vegan movement is making good progress.
But that would include downvoting the OP's post here then because he's using a pic of dead animal flesh.
Personally, I don't think censorship is acceptable. I think it's cowardly and dishonest. Wouldn't you prefer to openly debate issues rather than just throw an invisibility blanket over anyone who disagrees with you?
I hear what you say. I think that would be another angle. I do t think flagging is censorship. I think if there was an account which did blanket downvote, the content provider may also get people to support him/her to upvote. I think that downvoting would be more provocative. And sometimes that is necessary. Are you a meat eater yourself? What if there were communities that were eating human flesh? Do you think downvoting articles on how delicious babies taste would be inappropriate?
If people want to talk about eating babies I think it’s in the interest of the larger community to know about it. Ask them to discuss it. Try to understand. Gagging and censorship causes resentment and then backlash. Then it drives the behaviour underground.
Yes, I eat meat. I’ve not posted recipes but I’ve enjoyed looking at all types of recipes here — veggie and meat.
It feels wrong to waste your vp on flags or downvotes. Nobody benefits. Wouldn’t you prefer to just reward the content you prefer to encourage more of the same?
Perhaps. I need to give it some thought. I’m not sure that flagging meat dish articles will force it underground!! And maybe it’s better to vote the things I like. And I do actually vote vegans because it seems to me that they are helping everyone and the environment and he animals.
Lol true — it’d take a lot of power to hide all the meat posts.
I’m off to bed now.
Cheers
Anj 😃
Hi Danny. Thanks for the food for thought. I've created a post to explore the 'meat addiction' angle. I'd love it if you'd come and share your thoughts about it.
https://steemit.com/vegan/@anjkara/meat-addiction
cheers
Anj :)