In all honesty, if its allowed by the network I see nothing wrong with it
its not like he hacked or went outside of the rules in anyway, if its a protocol by the network that is allowed to be used.... why get upset about it?
there are people who post extremely well made content and get maybe 3 steem dollars, while there are woman in bathing suits who post three photos and they make $1,500 a post, per day. that sounds a bit more unfair to me
in the end, everyone is just trying to make a buck, if the network allows it, then it is what it is
I completely agree with @moderninvestor. The people who are new here create content by putting so much time and effort and they get no recognition for that where are some people out there post random posts and make $1000.
Yes, it is allowed by the network.
The point of the post is that so is flagging. And the question I raise is should we, as a community, consider this to be abuse worth flagging.
For me, if its allowed by the network, i dont see why it should be flagged, the creators surely know about it, and if they dont see it as an issue then it must not be one to them
however, there are people posting music videos ( that arent theirs) there are people posting racist images and quotes (this should be flagged) these things should be flagged....but then... for the second part you have the question of free speech, and the first one is a gray line, as i have seen people posting music videos from beyonce, but I dont see in the rules that this isnt allowed
Flagging is allowed by the platform. :p
It's impossible to do things that are not allowed by the platform.
So that guy upvoting himself - and draining the rewards pool for all of us - is a-ok cause the system allows it -
But you have a problem with flagging, the equal but opposite force of upvoting - also allowed by the system?
Not following @moderninvestor's the logic ...
Yeah the girl in the bathing suit is spam for you but for someone else it's beauty worth to be upvoted. I think Steemit will be a better place if we don't judge others judgements. Flagging each other can make this a war zone and no one wants to stay in a war zone.
I looked at the guy's comments. And while very low effort, they are original (not botted/copy pasted) and respect what he's commenting on.
I just think posts per day should be limited and comments should have a max power reduction and/or cap for self-voting. Also, to stop sock-puppet accounts... and tbh stop cliques from only voting each other... Votes towards a specific account should have diminishing returns over a certain amount of time. So if bob upvotes jane every post. By the week's end his vote towards her is diminished (until it regens). But his vote towards fresh faces or people he hasn't voted for in a while is unhindered.
Those are some great ideas.
agreed. it would become a toxic place to post, because eveyrone would be scared of everyone else within days