@taskmaster4450 how is this censorship? Can your post still be viewed by others? Can others still comment on the post? Can you still post? I'm asking this in good faith. I don't care even a bit about Randowhale or any whale wars.
I wrote a post exactly about this incorrect (in my view) use of the term "censorship" a week and a half ago.
Getting your potential rewards removed from the post is not censorship, it's a different thing all together.
PS: The downvote button isn't there just to downvote posts that brake the rules. It's also there to downvote opinions and posts we don't like and disagree with. In my view this shouldn't be a platform where everybody holds hands together and sings Kumbaya.
So......we go for pitchforks????
Upvotes Vs Downvotes result in a zero-sum game. Negative reinforcement doesn't work like positive reinforcement. Downvoting posts that doesn't break rules is a violation of NAP. It's also negative reinforcement and doesn't add any value to the platform.
If it didn't add any value to the platform do you think @dan and @ned would have included it? Make a suggestion to the witnesses to support removing the downvote button all together.
From the FAQ:
Maybe more people should at least read the FAQ before actually agreeing to use the website. People start playing games without reading the rules of the games and then are surprised that they don't like some rules while playing them.
If you were shot by a lone gunman it doesn't mean you did something wrong. Anybody who posses the gun can shoot anybody or anything according to the person who sell it. Ability doesn't mean it's a Right. If we walk this path we could simply be flagging each other in a flagging war which would be extremely counter productive.
A gun is designed to be able to shoot and kill. But only in certain circumstances the firing of a gun is justified.
How you arrived at that conclusion from what I wrote is beyond my understanding.
It's a metaphor.
Disagreeing is fine and should be done in a civil manner, but his post is no long visible, it's difficult to find.
Censorship aside, he lost money, taking money away from someone you disagree with should not be ok.
The money wasn't his to begin with, it's only potential payout. It's his once 7days are over and he gets payed out.
Besides, every social media site has a upvote and a downvote button and they’re both used all the time, why should steem be any different?
What do you mean? I went to his profile and I've pushed the SHOW button and the post is there. It took me 2 seconds.
He didn't loose money. He didn't receive the POTENTIAL author reward for that post. You see how these two are different?
Very true. There are lots of things you can do. But that doesn't mean you should do them. For an example you can walk into a school and shoot the kids down. The gun doesn't lock itself. It fires all the bullets. Ability doesn't mean it's a Right.
Before spreading misinformation, you should probably read the rules and FAQ's of this website, especially the part that talks about downvoting. I posted that part here.
Hey "LOSER". Learn to spell you pathetic fuck. I'm not LOOSE, but I may be a LOSER.
Again, learn to spell you uneducated moron.