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RE: Is There A Whale War Going on In Steemit?
I think this type of outward facing discord amongst adults is terribly distasteful
me, too.
But I do see a need for the flags. In the case of the person I continue to flag, it is because I do not agree with monetarily rewarding someone who is a con artist. There has to be some mechanism for reducing rewards that is separate from flagging for abuse.
I think there is a need for a separate downvote option. Give a post a frowny-face with no reward penalty to show disapproval without being punitive or abusive.
I'm ready for that.
Oh I completely agree that there is a need for flags. I think that there should be further tools that can be implemented as a community when it comes to con artists, scammers, and the like. Maybe a community board of shame where the community can come together and vote against accounts that have been proven to be scamming the system and eliminate them altogether. I don't know, but I do think we need options to deal with those particular issues as well.
cheetah and the steemcleaners do a great job actually. I think they are handling the spam, plagiarists...
what I am talking about is someone who is a real con artist in the real world...
I saw cheetah upvote a post that was a complete copy of another website earlier...perhaps it was ok because the poster did share the website as well but it definitely was not original content. I guess there aren't really any rules against sharing content from other places so long as it's stated.
A real con artist...well that would definitely be grounds for flagging.