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RE: I feel disheartened

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

Your thanks, if I was able to do anything other than whine loudly, are appreciation enough. I'll be honest, I saw something I considered "comment spam", and it came from a community group, and I promptly told them to get out of my post. Things have kind of gone downhill from there, their hearts seem to be in the right place, their intentions good, but I think their actions are centralizing what is supposed to be a decentralized platform.

The idea of community policing is good, up until someone starts walking around the neighborhood with a baseball bat, and that, is what whales can do.

I'm certain that I am not making friends there, and that's ok. I respect the concept and they wish to do good. I've no personal beef with anyone.

Thing is, and this might bear taking a deeper look at, they are vulnerable to unintended consequences. Those being, money is involved, and money here is power, or certainly can be, and if a group of Steemians decides a crusade is needed to stop a certain type of behaviour here and they use flagging as their bat, someone like bitconnect is going to notice that people using their link are being bothered. This bothers their bottom line, and they are not going to, unless it's proven legally, allow you to take their money. If they are innocent and there is an organized attempt using Steemit as a platform then Steemit is going to take the hit, both in PR and in having to defend themselves from facilitating libel. Then none of us will have a playground or audience here.

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I mean is this from your book or do you come up with all these off the top of your head 🙌🙌