PATRIOTIC DISSENT: Scorum's OTHER Forum, Part 2 - Decentralization Includes the Syndication of Articles Across the Different Social Media Platforms

By Lannie Brockstein.

October 2nd, 2019.

Second Printing: The Steem Blockchain.
First Printing: The SCR Blockchain.

ALMOST EVERY SUCCESSFUL MESSAGE BOARD ON THE INTERNET since the digital Age of Aquarius began does feature at least one Miscellaneous or Other forum, where any and all kinds of articles are welcome to be posted.

The idea of Scorum's message board having its own Other forum where non-sports articles are officially welcome to be posted, is an idea that has already been embraced by the Sports Hoopla message board which was established in 2009 and that has more than 13 million posts— it has several Other forums—some of which are about nothing to do with sports, such as its Photography, Music, and Travel forums.

The HFBoards message board also warmly embraced non-sports articles, and that too has only helped it to become one of the largest hockey message boards with a population of more than 100,000 members and more than 45 million messages posted—including its The Lounge forum that has more than 150,000 non-sports messages posted, and its Geek Emporium forum that has more than 70,000 non-sports messages posted.

That these properly populated online sports communities each feature a small set of Other forums where non-sports articles are welcome to be posted, is something that I recognize as being reasonable, as surely as the moral of the origin story of Superman is reasonable—that alienated human being of DC Comics lore who was born on the planet Krypton, and who lived there until it exploded due to climate change, and as its last remaining human he was sent in a spaceship to the planet Earth where eventually as an adult he moved to Metropolis, otherwise known as "New York City during the daytime" where to most New Yorkers their favourite home team is the New York Yankees—to them, whenever a fellow New Yorker is cheering for the other home team that means they are cheering for the New York Mets, and not the Yankees.

Likewise, if a cat did get really high on catnip whereby it did evolve to become a talking cat, and if it lived in Chicago where there are pizza chefs who bake delicious, nutritious, and filling Monterey Jack cheese pizzas that only have health-promoting ingredients, and if its favourite baseball team is the Chicago White Sox, then to that talking cat, whenever any of its fellow Chicagoans are meowing for the other home team that means they are meowing for the Cubs.

There is not one passionate baseball fan who will ever concede that the Yankees are the same as the Mets, or that the White Sox are the same as the Cubs—because the word "other" means "different". Yes, they are both baseball teams, and each of Scorum's forums are forums, but the Yankees are not the Mets, the White Sox are not the Cubs, and Scorum's Other forum is not limited to being the same as Scorum's sports forums.

The notion that there is an unwritten code of the Scorum Community that must never be questioned, and that it is to be obeyed at all times for the greater good of the Scorum social media platform, is a completely misguided and dishonest notion. Its stubborn adherents have directly contributed to the price of SCR having become almost completely worthless from their having chased away the greatest number of Scorum's legitimate bloggers whom had simply wanted to regularly post their innocent non-sports articles in Scorum's Other forum.

Look at what the bankrupt notion of that unwritten code has gotten Scorum: Around last place in terms of its cryptocurrency market cap. Only there isn't a draft for the Cryptocurrencies Price Standings where SCR, in finishing in last place every year, is awarded the 1st overall draft pick that is likely to become a franchise player.

Unless the Scorum community's unwritten code that has already done so much damage to the price of SCR is recognized for the schoolyard bullying and locker room hazing that it is, with that offending online behaviour being completely abolished by the Scorum community by means of its leading by example, then tragedy will continue to befall the price of SCR.

This means that the whales and other members of the Scorum community are needed to swim together in an anti-oligarchy pod, whereby they each agree to regularly syndicate/post some of their own non-sports articles in Scorum's Other forum that they themselves would have otherwise posted first at Steem and other decentralized social media platforms, in order to help create a culture at Scorum that keeps Scorum's Other forum free from all illegal flaggings against the non-sports articles of new Scorum users, as those illegal flags have proven to have chased many new Scorum users away, along with some of Scorum's early adopters, too.

Unless the whales and other brave members of the Scorum community lead by example in order to help Scorum's Other forum (in gritty practice and not only in abstract theory) to be a place that is genuinely welcoming to the non-sports articles of new Scorum users (so long as those non-sports articles are respectfully tagged to be posted in Scorum's Other forum and not in any of its sports forums), then the Scorum social media platform will continue to remain a last place social media platform in part due to its continuing to be hostile towards the non-sports oriented family and friends of Scorum's sports-oriented users, and the Scorum community will have done that to itself.

The sanctimonious unwritten code of the Scorum forum tribe is totally contrary and opposite to the temperament of the Scorum company that is a registered business, as on the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS part of Scorum's About page, it clearly states:

Can you write on any topic?
In general, yes. Sports is the main topic of the platform meaning content connected with sports will get more engagement and more cryptocurrency rewards.

The part where it says "In general, yes." clearly indicates that Scorum is meant to have other cultures that are non-sports cultures, and that are not Scorum's dominant sports culture, but that are nonetheless protected so that the minority rights of Scorum's non-sports users are not abused, excoriated, or lambasted by the sports culture at Scorum—and especially not by any users that are overbearing monoculturalist hypocrites who self-righteously consider themselves to be "sports purists".

"In general, yes." also clearly indicates the Scorum community is meant to recognize that non-sports articles that have been respectfully tagged to be posted in Scorum's Other forum and not in any sports forum do not deserve to be flagged simply for their not being sports articles. Any user at Scorum who flags such posts IS BEING AS PREJUDICED AS A RACIST in their not accepting the Scorum company that is a registered business does itself clearly support non-sports articles being posted in its Other forum. As such, the Scorum community has a moral duty to stand up in support of all non-sports articles, along with not upvoting them at a reduced rate simply because they are not sports articles, so long as they are respectfully posted in Scorum's Other forum, which is Scorum's decentralized forum and thus where they belong.

Further evidence that the Scorum company that is a registered business does warmly welcome non-sports articles to be posted in Scorum's Other forum is the fact that many of the secondary tags ADD TAGS options as listed by the Scorum company itself include many non-sports tags, such as tags for photography, poetry, philosophy, politics, and pizza.

So syndicate/post your non-sports photographs, your non-sports poems, your non-sports philosophical musings, your non-sports political diatribes, and your non-sports pizza recipes in Scorum's Other forum! That's what it is there for!

If you enjoyed reading this rebellious article, then stay tuned to my decentralized blog articles that I syndicate (because just as not everybody uses each of the different decentralized social media platforms, not everybody listens to the same radio stations—though many of them play the same songs) at Steem and Scorum for the upcoming Part 3 in this series of seven articles that I have written about Scorum's Other Forum, and that is tentatively titled "PATRIOTIC DISSENT: Scorum's OTHER Forum, Part 3 - Freedom of Speech Is the Lifeblood of Every Successful Social Media Platform "

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