Handling Trolls on Steemit Crushes Every Other Social Media Platform.
We Constantly Hear About Trolling on Social Media.
If you are a veteran of social media you probably have seen some of the trolling that happens. These trolls come in all types. Most of the time they provide zero value to the conversation. Their aim is to insight an angry response from the author of the post or within the comments themselves.
Types of Trolls and Bullies-
- The Political wannabe Pundit.
- The Religious Zealot.
- The Know it All Troll.
- The Grammar Nazi.
- The Online Marketing Police.
- The Jealous Troll.
- The Sexist Bully.
- The Attention Seeker.
- The Thrill of the Hunt Troll.
- The Failed in Life Troll.
Steemit Has a Genius Remedy to Trolls!
Simply hit the flag button if a comment is not appropriate. If enough people feel the same way the comment or even posts will be hidden due to low ratings. This also works for spam. If enough people flag the content the users account is worthless and their comments and posts will no longer show up.
I love how we can police our own platform. We don't have the problems like Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus where the corporate interests trump the will of the users. Too many accounts are being banned simply because they have different opinions. Here on Steemit we conduct ourselves in a more friendly manner because we as humans know there is an army of users that can crush us for misbehaving.
Warning!
If you abuse the Flag button then you are no better than the trolls. I personally believe flagging should only be used in extreme circumstances. I have been on Steemit for almost a year and have only used it 5-6 times. If someone is spamming my posts I give them a warning first. Also the more SteemPower an account has the more value a Flag can have, just like an Upvote.
Being an AssHole Doesn't Pay on Steemit!!
Thank You @MyNameisBrian for the Gif. Please Follow Him.
That's why Steemit will beat most of the social medias out there. The only thing that worries me if this positive thing doesn't turn out to be a negative one while we might enter a position where couple of frustrated SP rich people start to flag positve comments. This would become a "censorship" scenario but with more sense authors this should be easy to avoid.
Bernie Sanders comes to mind. Don't piss him off or he'll flag you into negative numbers.
Flaggin is wrong. It should be taken out of the code.
But a few whales have gone into a little bit of a drama war with each other, so now we see a little bit less flagging. Even those at the top are greatly affected.
yup..
flaggin is wrong.
it should be removed.
last thing we need are bernie sanders typos...
dangerous as a baby with a gattling gun.
remove flaggin from the code.
I agree
I agree with this so much!
it sux!
reported
For?
Having had a youtube channel for a few years, I can tell you that there is probably the biggest amount of trolling there than any other platform. There is literally Troll wars that last years and people cry on video. It gets pretty ridiculous at times. I am really happy that it is under control here.
And that's why you need to censor the FUCK out of comments. I just block as many people as I can who are trying to run a negative environment. Screw that, you don't need those people
hahaha negative environment. this was funny to me I hope it should be lol
Well censorship is one thing, and being able to control an environment for the better of all those watching/viewing content is another. I mean technically they're the same but it's like all about the experience, you know? You want to make it as good as you can for everybody involved.
Absolutely true. Those paid commenters or "unlikers" are paid for by companies and they target especially everything that is "alternative" or against the establishment. But I trust in the YouTube watchers, I think they can distringuish good from bad.
I only had to use it once in the comment area so far, dude was posting tons of links all the time lol
Yup, that is how I use it as well. If the warning doesn't work the hammer comes down.
I'm using the hell out of it... all of the "follow me" and "upvote me" trolls are getting nailed!
Thor!
I always warn people who spam my content with generic comments. I tell them I really won´t flag them but if a dolphin having a bad day sees that they can flag them to hell. So if they want followers and votes they should engage in a meaningful thread or comment something that adds value to the content or the person. This was a good post mate, congrats.
I don't use the flag options that much been when I do, it's usual a half dozen accounts making "test" post lol That stuff got old quick!
Lets keep this culture strong!
Well stated.
Your post makes a nice bookend for @dwinblood's post yesterday about the mute button.
I like the restraint that most people show here, there is a surprising number of people on this platform who discuss rather than go Nuclear at the drop of a hat.
This is really good for steemians community. We need a steemians police against bullies! We already know what a bullies can do, just look at twitter. I hope steemit will be here for a long long long time and be free of trollers
Really interesting article!
I've been on the internet for almost 10 years now, and I learned how to deal with trolls, by simply ignoring them. I realized a long time ago that trolls (or at least some of them) are just a bunch of frustrated kids that can't actually do any good, so they just do bad for no reason.
In the early days, sometimes, trolling was funny, because people knew how to troll others in funny ways and even you as a victim would've been amused.
These days however every kid that does something bad to annoy others calls himself a troll. It's sad.
I'm happy about the way Steemit is doing things tho, allowing people to flag the trolls and maybe make them leave the websites.
Congratulations for your post and best of luck!
I always say be yourself, but if you are being an asshole,, maybe you better just keep your mouth shut haha... Good post!