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RE: Blacklist?!?! Is The Steemit Platform Becoming A “Muppet Show?”
What’s happening here is an unfortunate side effect of a completely free society. A few people will assign themselves the roll of moral police. What do we do about it? I don’t know... ignore them? If you fight them they win. Never wrestle with a pig, because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
I dig your content, dude. Keep up the good work. Don’t allow an idiot to ruin your day.
It is necessary to make the business of these impostors unprofitable. Set them back flags. When they become unprofitable, they will stop doing it. They are not for the sake of an idea, they are for the money spoil the entire system.
@topfindings I agree. Right now here are the ways to make it increasingly unprofitable:
#1 - report frauds to proper authorities: https://steemit.com/abuse/@psecdocumentary/think-something-might-be-an-online-racket-report-it-to-the-fbi-online
#2 - unity in the community. Everyone that has gotten abused by this scam needs to track each other down, follow each other and support each others work as much as possible. Our COMBINED reputation power will over power nazi dick tators such as The Marky Shark once we have enough numbers. Steemit makes it easy to see exactly who is being abused by this money laundering racket, so it hasn't been difficult to unite.
#3 - support each other on other platforms as well. YouTube, BitChute, etc the list goes on.
United we stand, divided we're cucked.
@dudeboblives I don't think we're seeing a side effect of a completely free society, I think what we see is an attempt at a completely free society that has made the mistakes all non-free societies have always made. For example, the reputation scoring thing. That is not a free society aspect at all. That is an elitist ranking system. A free society would mean if someone is a douchebag, then people reserve the freedom and the right to block them if they wish to, and that no one else gets to make that choice for them. So where as IPFS itself may be completely free societaly, STEEMIT most surely IS NOT. Anything based around a centralized hierarchy is inherently non-free. Though IPFS is a decentralized method of storing and transferring data, this does not automatically imply that everything using this method is magically and by default in a state of freedom.
Now if someone creates a blacklist of some sort and people have the option of opting-in or opting-out, this would be completely fine. But no one can opt-out of @badcontent. Whether anyone likes it or not, if they come across a steemit profile whose content is on this list and they find it annoying that they are getting bogus "beware of spammer" messages every time they view that content -- they have no option what so ever to opt-out of seeing that. Therefore, Steemit is NOT a "free society" and therefore this is not a side effect of a free society, it is business as usual in the usual classic historical tyranny / kakistocracy.