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RE: ๐ฌ Promoting WOX's Top Commenters - Supporting Steemit's Vision Week #1
I totally get you @the-gorilla Thatโs how it feels like when youโre trying to change something for good. Itโs great that many supported you in that endless fight. Looks like they were just waiting for the right person to make the move and they followed the lead.
It went very well to start with - sc01 had the power to downvote the users with higher rewards or that used upvoting services. Then one day, the downvotes stopped (presumably they were told that they weren't allowed to downvote any more) and things got harder - the downvotes were a great deterrent and some of the bigger abusers stopped. Then it slowly became more and more of a grind as people expected you to do everything, more people tried to help but created more work than they prevented. So I decided to stop flagging every post and instead shift the focus to community leaders. Community leaders who don't do enough won't get the monthly community support program so it's a good incentive.
That definitely isnโt a one man job @the-gorilla I saw that you also had to do a lot of explaining as well and answer many questions which in the end of the day takes extra time on top of flagging posts. Even to flag a post involves lots of reading and investing I suppose before just hitting the red flag ๐ฉ Itโs quite clever that you got the community leaders involved in fighting plagiarism too.
There were a couple of reliable helpers, @datych was one of the best. But like you say, arguing took up as much time as investigating and the point at which you're highlighting $1,000 of pending payouts which nobody can do anything with, it feels pointless slapping some poor kid who's earning $0.02 with a notice and downvote.
That all makes sense when you look at the big picture really @the-gorilla Itโs still great that you raised awareness about plagiarism here. I hope that this at least made the regular contributors more certain that this platform is the right place to share their ideally exclusive content. There isnโt such a thing as the safest place on Earth but knowing people like you read, investigate and are available to answer questions if needed I find reassuring enough. I remember @datych being very proud of his title in Mosquito Squishers ๐
And at the moment there seems to be a civil war between the Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities. So I thought it might be nice to do this...
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Oh Dear ๐ฑ Hope it sorts itself out any time soon and they donโt expect you to take sides.
It was my post that started all of the trouble ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
OMG ๐ฑ It counts as an achievement then ๐ Am I maybe working on my new avatar tonight ๐คThere canโt be a better time than now!
A war? Why?
Oh, the usual - one group accusing the other of abusing community accounts, plagiarism, farming, fake profiles, etc. Country representatives accused of being immoral and corrupt (probably because they found their fake profiles). It's probably been happening since the beginning of Steemit!
Wow. Probably, these are old wounds. The countries had ugly divorce in the past.
There is tension within Steemit Russian-speaking society too.