HAHA "ANd here is a Dick!" HAHAHA
This is going to be amazing man, speak that mind of yours please PLEASE! HAHA.
Also, there IS censorship on steemit but it comes in the form of steem power. If you piss off whales they can technically downvote the shit out of your stuff and that could cut into your profits. BUT if that were to happen it would likely cause a flag war.
This is the wild west and everyone with a shit load of steam power has a gun and they can use it however they want. If some dumbass like Shives shows up and drops a billion dollars on Steem power he would be able to technically down vote the shit out of anything he hates.
A cucked out billionaire could technically fuck this platform and censor it to hell and back.
With that said, what is most likely to happen is guys like you will already be established with a metric shit ton of steem power that not only will you be harder to downvote but you will be able to upvote your buddies who you are protecting.
Anyway its great to see you here man!!
edit : Self upvote for visibility. I normally don't do that shit with comments.
If a billionaire buys millions of Steem the price will rise and we will all be more powerful to counter his downvotes. But you are right, this remains a problem until we improve the code. And we WILL improve the code. It is just not important right now. Hardfork 20 will bring mass market adoption features like easier account creation. But the flagging system will not continue like this forever, I think.
The flagging system is fine. All it does is place us in a situation where you have to put your money where your mouth is. The wild west will have problems but most people who are politically correct are total dumb asses who will have almost no power here. They are grow dumber every day while they jack themselves off in echo chambers and safe spaces.
TJ wont have the kind of content that angers whales here because most whales don't care about this kind of stuff. The early adopter content creators will be the main people who will be the strongest and have the most influence.
Leave the flagging system alone. completely unregulated wild west is very much a needed aspect of the platform. Its a major attribute to cryptocurrency in general.
Just don't piss off a whale and you are fine I think lol.
It's a very difficult topic but code can always be improved to work in better ways.
Undercover accounts? How much steem power do they have? I think if you get someone with a tribalistic following then flagging is pretty risky even with a sock account. It would be really hard to cover your tracks on the blockchain to hide who provided the account with steem. Yikes
You're so nice for commenting on this post. For that, I gave you a vote! I just ask for a Follow in return!
On that same note, I have seen some really wealthy dudes get their asses kicked in on this platform. Being a whale wont save you from negative reputation which I think pretty much destroys your downvote power.
The technical term is "censorship resistant". Like it's possible for a video with child porn or snuff film to be flagged into oblivion and in effect "censor" it. But now the power lies not on a board of some PC idiots who don't give a shit the content or the context of a "flaggable material" but on the hands of the audience.
Anyways yea its awesome to see @tjkirk on here. Freedom of expression for the fucking win!
I disagree.
So people can say whatever the fuck they want, they can just not expect payments for whatever the fuck they want unless the support they receive exceeds the opposition they get. Which is how it should be imo.
You can potentially be demonetized. But yeah otherwise you cant really be censored. Nobody can take your stuff down.
I wonder if its possible to double dip using BAT tokens on Steemit. But also too nobody can prevent you from getting direct donations which is very easy to do. I wish they would add a donate button next to the upvote button. to be honest.
Very true. Also to be realistic, its probably never going to happen. Look at that fucking
Haejin guy posting terrible content and massively self upvoting himself for 400 USD each post. And that fucker has not been bothered by anyone, and anyone with half a brain can watch one of his videos and see that he is just out right raping the reward pool.
Aint nobody is going to get censored on this place, its technically possible but it isn't going to happen.
It wont cut the visibility among whoever allready follows you though, so unless that person has billions or trillions (i mean, if that where to happen the value of steem$ will rise) to spare, it will be very shortlived, i.e. till you upload more content.