I usually treat Steemit like a safe haven from politics.... Being in an environment of mostly like-minded people has allowed me to be what I really enjoy being: happy, serene, and apolitical.
But....
Sometimes the Lion has to remind the Hyenas who the king of the jungle is.
I hope (for my own sanity) I am able to ignore the notifications I get for the (very likely) parade of replies I will be receiving all day. Maybe I will turn off notifications right now).
Funny story: one time I did some facebook political trolling. It may sound strange but when I do "troll" I do it as a form of activism to get people to question their strongly held beliefs: a Mount Everest of a task on Facebook and most (if not all) social media sites. (Is Steemit included in that statement?)
After ending my lunch break I put my phone on the charger and went to another part of the house. 20 minutes later my boss walks over to my with my phone and said: "I don't know if someone is trying to get in touch with you or what is going on but your phone has been dinging and ringing since you put it on the charger."
I checked my phone: over 40 replies to me and 9 out of every 10 were foaming-at-the-mouth hate full of vitriol. I had people messaging me saying they hope I died or get horribly disfigured.... Wishes of ill-will including cancer, plague, pestilence: they basically called upon all the Bible's plagues to come down on me.
It wasn't even having anything to do with religion, either! I was talking about pretty much the same thing I talked about in this post.... They just felt I was out of line to question their authority....
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I usually treat Steemit like a safe haven from politics.... Being in an environment of mostly like-minded people has allowed me to be what I really enjoy being: happy, serene, and apolitical.
But....
Sometimes the Lion has to remind the Hyenas who the king of the jungle is.
I hope (for my own sanity) I am able to ignore the notifications I get for the (very likely) parade of replies I will be receiving all day. Maybe I will turn off notifications right now).
Funny story: one time I did some facebook political trolling. It may sound strange but when I do "troll" I do it as a form of activism to get people to question their strongly held beliefs: a Mount Everest of a task on Facebook and most (if not all) social media sites. (Is Steemit included in that statement?)
After ending my lunch break I put my phone on the charger and went to another part of the house. 20 minutes later my boss walks over to my with my phone and said: "I don't know if someone is trying to get in touch with you or what is going on but your phone has been dinging and ringing since you put it on the charger."
I checked my phone: over 40 replies to me and 9 out of every 10 were foaming-at-the-mouth hate full of vitriol. I had people messaging me saying they hope I died or get horribly disfigured.... Wishes of ill-will including cancer, plague, pestilence: they basically called upon all the Bible's plagues to come down on me.
It wasn't even having anything to do with religion, either! I was talking about pretty much the same thing I talked about in this post.... They just felt I was out of line to question their authority....