RE: Steemit Pedophile Ring Exposed
Thank you for your reply.
I was not accusing you of anything in my remark. What I meant by that remark "This is clearly to test the waters and see if there are people approving of these things" is that @iamgod is testing the waters to see if there will be people interested in what he offers. However, I certainly didn't appreciate you putting pictures I didn't chose to see. f I wanted, I would have done it without being forced to see it shoved into my face.
If you think "The @iamgod guy probably is a paedophile, based on his crude comments on the clothed girls, but we're talking about young clothed girls out in public sitting in a park or just wearing hot pants. That is not porn! That's just a pervert! And an upvote doesn't signify agreement."
if he could possibly be a pedophile and certainly a pervert, then this is the more reason to be aware of his actions and flag him out of steemit as you indicated.
As for the possibly innocent people that upvoted and got involved in the accusation. I said in my replies before and I will say it again. I invite them to build trust with steemians and build their reputation again. They will be supported if people find they are sincere.
Yes, I agree with the flagging. It is the "guilty by association" post I am disputing should not have been endorsed. They didn't get involved voluntarily as far as we know. Their upvotes could be automated as said by others and labelling these things as "child porn" makes people scared to look, which means who was to know that the "helping daddy with dinner" post was actually a grown woman!
Why do you believe somebody accused of such slander should have to rebuild trust that they should not have lost in the first place had it not for being misled by this sensationalised post!? It is @titusfrost's responsibility to issue an apology to his followers and admit that he exaggerated the nature of these posts. He is responsible for the witchhunt.
It is his responsibility to call off his dogs!
I agree that @titusfrost should probably apologize for using strong words in his post. However, I still support his stance of condemning a bad behavior and depending on how much he believes in what he did, his strong feelings appeared in his actions and words.
About the people you spoke of making automatic votes. They still have responsibility for their votes (automatic or not) as well. Everyone is responsible for their actions or lack of it. I say this because I feel strongly against pedophilia as well.
We are all working to build trust and reputation anyway. Nothing is wrong with that. If they don't want to, it's up to them. However, I don't see how @titusfrost apology will change much if they just pretend to be victims of their own choices without proving themselves to be sincere.
@therealwolf himself said that he found other "unacceptable contents" but he upvoted one he found acceptable, which was not child porn! This means he made a voting choice fully aware of the other contents. No?