Screw Malicious Flagging: 1 Flag Vs 130+ Votes
If you take a look at my profile, you'll see that my last post was the target of malicious flagging.
Flagging of a magnitude that while over 130+ Votes were positive and many at 100%, the post was disabled and hidden due to low ratings.
This wasn't any other post though, it was a post that I worked a lot on, and that the community appreciated. It got included in curation posts, had over 70 comments and it was my MOST SUCCESSFUL post ever.
Having said that, I don't even know if the vote was on purpose or simply a mistake.
This is what I'm talking about in today's post.
I Spent 8 Hours Designing the Post:
On my last post, I made a Steemit Card Game with a lot of Steemians you are used to see on the Hot and Trending sections of the site.
The cards were based on the popular Magic the Gathering tradecards' designs and were personalized with each Steemian's avatar, name, character traits, quotes, special abilities that showed their personality and more.
The cards shown above are some of the many included in yesterday's post.
I spent a lot of time thinking about who to include, thinking on each individual card and their skilss, designging the cards and placing them all on a A4 International Paper model with wooden railings... it was neat and proper.
It was quality content, and most people noticed that. In fact, there wasn't even 1 single negative comment and the only negative vote was the $280 Flag that made sure my post would see the light of day again.
Everyone Enjoyed it: Laughs, Curation Lists, Trails, Name it!
Of course that to make a post where all of the community could relate to the cards and laugh about them, I'd have to make them on high-profile individuals.
I did so, and I never expected this but they laughed along and showed me their support.
Then, the post started to be resteemed and shared on curation lists, and I saw that this was my MOST SUCCESSFUL post ever...
...but it all ended soon enough.
One person, and I appreciate that you don't tag such person on I'll risk getting hammered again, took everything away and hid the post with one click of the mouse.
It was all it took.
It didn't matter that I didn't harm noone, or that I am a small fishy just a month old.
And the worst thing is what I'm going to talk about next.
I Don't Know if the Flag Was On Purpose
There are a lot of reasons to suspect that the flag wasn't on purpose, but rather a reactionary action due to some rivalries on here.
Due to some resteems, there was room for someone to suspect the post wasn't humorous at all.
Maybe it is even a scripted thing.
I don't know, I have no explanation. What I do know is that I still think it is worth it.
It was worth it because even though the post is hidden and with zero rewards, people still come to comment, laugh about it and leave me with words of support.
I got to get a reaction from the community, and the community recognized my existence.
That in itself was a blessing.
Having my existence on this ecosystem acknowledge was worth all of that and more.
I'll resume my regular postings tomorrow, and who knows if I'll make more cards eventually.
Cheers
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Resteemed, because this is fucking bullshit.
This is why I'm checking out of this community, fyi.
Checking out would be an absolute tragedy, since you add so much and add great curation. I've read your comments on the flagging topic and agreed with everyone of them. There is so much potential in steemit, but the abuse by those who either bought power or scam power ruin the experience and effort of the rest of the community and I would argue give no welcome to new people.
Agreed
The flag was 100% without a doubt malicious, it is the standard weapon of the two parties currently doing the greatest Steem Bank Heist ever pulled.
Upvoting and Flagging weren't enough, now they are greatly influencing witness voting with all that power proxied to the ringleader.
This post was creative and very funny. There is NO WAY that it should have been downvoted. I was vey much pro-haejin camp but now that they are acting in the same way at the B.S. camp I'm backing away. The fault is the system which allows this abuse. Its been tested and the faults highlighted and a redesign is urgently needed.
@tarquinmaine I agree, I think flag weight should be calculated on a percentage vs positive votes, and not take into account SP.
Hello Tarquin. THanks for the support.
There are some people with some pretty interesting ideas to improve things around here already.
Cheers
Hi :)
I first saw this post as it was resteemed from one of the parties that is, for lack of a better phrase, on one side of the flag war. I think it was a flag of association. "You are my enemy, I shall attack you and all you decide to support."
Which is a bit sour and sad. It feels like you have a population who exists on here, and it is a large population, who are pushing for a Utopian ideal, and then there is warring faction that is gradually threatening to draw more and more users in to it.
I always wondered what was going to happen to Steemit if voting got driven by political motives. Christ, it'll be a nightmare if it sees the same sort of factional bickering that exists on other social media and forums.
Right now, I don't see anything being done about it. The mantra is "manage it yourselves" and there isn't really a mechanism for that to be done to an effective level right now.
I think we'll see a better mechanism in the future, at least there are some great ideas being thought up.
Cheers
Sadly the guards watching over the bank are effectively wielding foam bats. The robbers literally don't know what's hitting them.
There are no guards, just local militia and they won't come out of their homes.
Thank you for posting
Thank you for commenting.
I've been seeing this for a few days and was wondering what was happening. Turns out is some powerplay. I guess time will tell where this leads. I hope their energy runs out soon, since I'm planning to stay here for a long time. I'm liking this site. It would be a shame to see it drop a lot in quality due to those people.
You're optimist. That's nice.
Need to be an optimist to believe in STEEM right now.
I haven't noticed until now since I've been working a lot, but I hope it'll be turning out well in the end. I have to read more about this. I hope it's not too concerning.
You, I like you... going to send you an invite to my invite-only community.
yeah, we should also respect them though as shareholders and hope that they perform more responsibly in the future, these are basically steems ceos.
I'm not justifying their actions I'm just saying its voting shares after all they help decide where the dividends go.
Yeah, and they're CEO's that the board can never vote out of office.
Abuse is abuse, whether they created it or not.
:D:D:D Steem CEOs :D:D:D. They found that with ~1million$ investment they can profit something around 4million$ a year. Incredible ROI. And they are cashing out.
It makes sense actually.
A lot of variety of different unique people here on Steemit. As always the saying has its own way "YOU CAN"T PLEASE EVERYONE"
@themarkymark
Would you be able to name the two parties? I'm curious
Always somebody pulling crap
Perhaps steemit calculation works that way because the creators want you to feel like a boss at the top not considering abuse.
Who are the two parties that is doing the Steem Bank Heist?
As a new user, I have no idea whats going on here.
Great post, people need to look out for this. Something needs to be done tim prevent it. Love the trading cards! Played a lot of MTGO years ago. I used to draft every day. Limited rating was 1800+. Good times, great post!
plsce bro vote me
good good pictur post and vote give you nice job all friends
Argh!
Hoe is this fair. Someone invested a lot of energy into good content and he becomes a victim of a feud he has nothing to do with.
So pissed
@spiritualmax I love your resilience.
Stern on
Flagging should register the displeasure of the viewer and serve as a signal to the author and other viewers that the content may be iffy. The impact on earnings should be removed. There is just too much power play based on wallet size. It will harm the continued development of the Steemit platform and the related tokens.
Oh dear! Here is @smooth-a again with his counter flags like his famous, senseless ridiculous flagging rampage “THE Experiment”. I am still struggling to chase my reputation, he destroyed those days. I wonder why he flagged this article this time??? I am amazed that the whole community got together to help This member is only a “victim”, getting in the middle of whale wars! Smooth! I muted you before and will mute You again. You and @abit never made sense then and Now you don’t feel like this member should get that much of the reward pool, while gamers game the system for so long already! Just let him have his Justice and Fun!
Look what they've done.
They flagged you and now you are on top.
I believe that in this type of cituation it is perfectly normal to repost your content.
Resteemed! Thanks for the suggestion.
Maybe you just touched someone's feelings.
This was great! Had a good laugh and you are quite creative when it comes to your photoshopping ability. haha
Thanks for a fun post!
This is crazy!
Max I checked your blog and other post just to verify that whatever your are saying is that right or not, because I was amazed to see if someone could get success in this short time and i must say i am impressed.
The kind of fame you are enjoying, you really deserve that. Whatever happened with your last post shouldn't have happened.
Thanks man!
That is so kind of you to say! I'm grateful for the amount of support I've been getting through these days.
Great to see that the community spirit work and that there is justice.
Cheers
That's just insane abuse of power.
Yeap.
Are witnesses participate in this war?
I would say so since they are the core of the system, and whales should be backing some witnesses which will not go against them.
Some spoke up and were flagged heavily by the opposing side...