Some people have many accounts. There's no limit to how many accounts you can have. You can buy all you want. @berniesanders has hundreds of accounts at least, and he uses many of them to flag people he doesn't like. He doesn't like me because I don't take his crap. He flags every comment and post I make. All of the upvotes on the @iflagtrash comment are more of his bots, or sock puppets.
If you don't like bots autoflagging people, you can do as I do, and flag them back to prevent him from making a profit by flagging people for no good reason. Right now he's profiting on this particular flag .13 Steem. I have flagged it to the max I can, and to reduce his profit more people will have to flag it too. Please feel free to do so.
Edit: I note that I upvoted your comment at 25% as is my usual practice. Ordinarily this provide .01 Steem to folks, .005 STU. You can observe from my upvote on @oydd0dat's reply that amount of rewards were provided by my upvote. For some reason my upvote to you did not provide .005 STU, nor .01 Steem. Something weird is going on that is revealed by that dichotomy between the rewards on the upvote I gave you and the upvote I gave @oyddodat. It is not a difference in my VP, since I upvoted you before I upvoted @oyddodat. If VP depletion were the reason for the difference between the rewards provided by my upvote, then @oyddodat would have received less STU and Steem, since I upvoted him after I upvoted you.
It would be good to know why this happened, because I know of no good reason why this should happen, unless you are being deprived of rewards somehow by some unknown mechanism. @ned or @steemit may have more information. Somebody does know why you were deprived the rewards that should have inured to you from my upvote, and it is not a good thing that this is happening to you.
@value-customer - OMG, this is terrible & maybe why I never make any money from my posts & why I stopped getting followers almost a year ago.
In fact, your comment was hidden. I was only able to get to it by opening the full thread & ONLY if I mouse over it, otherwise it's greyed out like this...
@markymark explained it completely. I upvoted you after the 7 day payout period had passed, and so you didn't get rewarded by my upvote.
Sorry about the confusion.
Flags can censor posts and comments, but only on the front end, not the Steem blockchain itself. I use Steempeak presently, but Steemit, Busy, Kure, and others exist which decide whether and how censorship is handled.
The price of Steem crashed almost a year ago, and many users bailed. This is likely most of how your following and rewards were affected. Wish I could change that.
@iflagtrash and @abusereports, both sock puppets of @berniesanders, flagged the above comment. Since he has a lot of Steem on both those accounts, he reduced the value of the comment nominally to censor it. I use Steempeak, and not Steemit or another frontend to use Steem, so the comment is not greyed out to me, because Steempeak handles flagging a little differently, or perhaps because it's my own comment. I don't really know why it isn't greyed out to me.
I don't know why you are unaware of the flags on the comment. Partiko has been suggested to not reveal some flags, but that's the only interface I am aware of, and only one user has told me that about it, so I don't know the facts of the matter, since I don't use Partiko.
This comment will also receive two flags from Bernie, and probably be greyed out as well.
I keep forgetting to log in using SteamPlus. I didn't like Steampeak when I tried it last year.
I just logged in & it also prevented me from seeing it.
Also b/c of the bloody banners at the top now which are NOT coded properly, certain things don't show up near the top, & every time I come across a thread that is hidden, I can't even see the button to show it. It's very frustrating.
I had an issue with their banner covering up my headline a few weeks ago & it caused me a whole bunch of stress as the wrong heading went on the wrong post LOL
All I can see are the names of the people who voted, but where does it say you (or the comment) were flagged?
What is a flag trash? LOL
Some people have many accounts. There's no limit to how many accounts you can have. You can buy all you want. @berniesanders has hundreds of accounts at least, and he uses many of them to flag people he doesn't like. He doesn't like me because I don't take his crap. He flags every comment and post I make. All of the upvotes on the @iflagtrash comment are more of his bots, or sock puppets.
If you don't like bots autoflagging people, you can do as I do, and flag them back to prevent him from making a profit by flagging people for no good reason. Right now he's profiting on this particular flag .13 Steem. I have flagged it to the max I can, and to reduce his profit more people will have to flag it too. Please feel free to do so.
Edit: I note that I upvoted your comment at 25% as is my usual practice. Ordinarily this provide .01 Steem to folks, .005 STU. You can observe from my upvote on @oydd0dat's reply that amount of rewards were provided by my upvote. For some reason my upvote to you did not provide .005 STU, nor .01 Steem. Something weird is going on that is revealed by that dichotomy between the rewards on the upvote I gave you and the upvote I gave @oyddodat. It is not a difference in my VP, since I upvoted you before I upvoted @oyddodat. If VP depletion were the reason for the difference between the rewards provided by my upvote, then @oyddodat would have received less STU and Steem, since I upvoted him after I upvoted you.
It would be good to know why this happened, because I know of no good reason why this should happen, unless you are being deprived of rewards somehow by some unknown mechanism. @ned or @steemit may have more information. Somebody does know why you were deprived the rewards that should have inured to you from my upvote, and it is not a good thing that this is happening to you.
@value-customer - OMG, this is terrible & maybe why I never make any money from my posts & why I stopped getting followers almost a year ago.
In fact, your comment was hidden. I was only able to get to it by opening the full thread & ONLY if I mouse over it, otherwise it's greyed out like this...
https://nimb.ws/li89kY
Can you please help me get to the bottom of this?
Thank you
@markymark explained it completely. I upvoted you after the 7 day payout period had passed, and so you didn't get rewarded by my upvote.
Sorry about the confusion.
Flags can censor posts and comments, but only on the front end, not the Steem blockchain itself. I use Steempeak presently, but Steemit, Busy, Kure, and others exist which decide whether and how censorship is handled.
The price of Steem crashed almost a year ago, and many users bailed. This is likely most of how your following and rewards were affected. Wish I could change that.
I really, really do.
@valued-customer - there is no comment from a markymark. I double checked even.
This comment is also greyed out due to low ratings.
Are all of your comments like that? I mean you just posted it yesterday, how & WHY would it get a low rating already? : (
Thanks for letting me know what happened.
I posted a request for information regarding the matter. The reply I received from @markymark was provided there.
@iflagtrash and @abusereports, both sock puppets of @berniesanders, flagged the above comment. Since he has a lot of Steem on both those accounts, he reduced the value of the comment nominally to censor it. I use Steempeak, and not Steemit or another frontend to use Steem, so the comment is not greyed out to me, because Steempeak handles flagging a little differently, or perhaps because it's my own comment. I don't really know why it isn't greyed out to me.
I don't know why you are unaware of the flags on the comment. Partiko has been suggested to not reveal some flags, but that's the only interface I am aware of, and only one user has told me that about it, so I don't know the facts of the matter, since I don't use Partiko.
This comment will also receive two flags from Bernie, and probably be greyed out as well.
@valued-customer - ahh, I see now.
Are you the same person as Libertyteeth?
If not, why are they doing this to you? : (
I keep forgetting to log in using SteamPlus. I didn't like Steampeak when I tried it last year.
I just logged in & it also prevented me from seeing it.
Also b/c of the bloody banners at the top now which are NOT coded properly, certain things don't show up near the top, & every time I come across a thread that is hidden, I can't even see the button to show it. It's very frustrating.
I had an issue with their banner covering up my headline a few weeks ago & it caused me a whole bunch of stress as the wrong heading went on the wrong post LOL
All I can see are the names of the people who voted, but where does it say you (or the comment) were flagged?
And yes, it's those two names.
What's a sock puppet?