Quick Thoughts
Just gonna post some quick thoughts as I do not have internet for my computer to spend a lot of time formatting or finding pictures. Currently moving to Texas and just drove 12 hours today from Illinois to Texas.
Head In the Sand
The newest truce rules which can be found on the walls of or
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The agreement is basically, stop flagging, commenting, complaining, or accusing either side of anything negative.
And by doing this, @Haejin agrees to 100% powerup 6 votes of every 10.
This seems like a cop out. It basically makes me feel like the whole movement to stop this was pointless and useless. Like we should just put our heads in the sand.
Negatives
There was a lot of friendly fire going on during the flame war. Many legitimate accounts on both sides got flagged for very little reasons, and emotions ran high.
Idk how many followers of Haejin are legitimate. But I know there has to be legitimate followers and I don't want them to hurt for being mis-informed. Likewise, people on either side shouldn't be hurt for trying to correct something they see as wrong.
So what did we learn?
Flagging To Fix Payouts Will Not Work
Flag wars are horrible ideas. Minnows get caught in the crossfire and it's impossible to tell who's legitimate and who's not. It saddens me to know that many people on BOTH sides were flagged into oblivion because nobody knew who or what was actually going on.
If I ever flagged a legitimate account, I apologize to you as my intention was to never hurt a LEGITIMATE user of the Steem blockchain.
Please understand, that the legitimate users on both sides felt they were doing what was right at the time.
The Next Step
This is obviously a huge issue with the platform. I think this needs to be talked about and fixed in a way that does not involve a war that hurts the platform as much as the act that was flagged.
I still believe a hard cap on the reward pool percentages could be a viable answer to this issue. (i.e. one account cannot make more than 1% of the reward pool. Or some other amount that seems reasonable to the COMMUNITY. Not to the whales who abuse this ability.)
Please my fellow Steemians, remember that when you get a payout, it is taken from a community pool that is shared with all other content creators and curators.
When you make your single picture post, and upvote it to 100's of dollars, you are taking from legitimate users who are working to build the community and the content it provides.
I am willing to talk about anything with anyone who feels they want to share their thoughts!
Request of Haejin
As someone who says he has 15+ years of experience. Could you make a post about the differences you have found between crypto markets and regular stock markets?
What patterns hold true and are there any NEW patterns that emerged with this new investing opportunity!
-BiasNarrative