Greetings to all Steemians,

This post is about some things that concern me about the steemit platform in general. You can call it a rant if you like. But these concerns should be everyone's concerns not just mine. Please read through carefully, sometimes I have a problem conveying my thoughts to words.

Plagiarism

Some people and organizations here on steemit have taken it upon them selves to be the moral police and flagging peoples posts for plagiarism with out notice or explanation. This I do not think has happen to me yet as far as I know. Maybe you should check and be sure

Hive account@carpenterbee.

For petes sake, if your going to flag someone for plagiarism at least do the person a favor and let them know what it is they did wrong. Think about it! How are they going to correct the problem if they do not know what it is they are doing wrong? Link definitions, Show them or link to posts that show them how to properly cite other peoples work in their posts. This willy nilly flagging with out explanation will hurt the community more then help it.

Censorship

This platform was advertised as being a DE-centralized and UN-censor-able platform. If people are going to start using the flagging system to start limiting another authors post just because they do not agree with its content then that is CENSORSHIP!
I seen a post yesterday that listed community guidelines! WTF! Again community guidelines are a form of censorship. One group of peoples beliefs or views being projected onto a community as a whole. This community that is supposed to be all for DE-centralization and against censorship. So whats up with that?

From what I see in my personal opinion is that these people that are projecting these so called guidelines either (1) have no idea what personal responsibility is or (2) choose not to employ personal responsibility.

Adult material - has a place here, its category is called NSFW tag. If you click the link to view the content then it is your personal responsibility for doing so. If you do not wish to view such material then it is your personal responsibility NOT to click the link to view. See where I am to go with this?

Hate speech – it is still a matter of personal responsibility. The author’s personal responsibility for posting it. The reader’s personal responsibility NOT to up-vote if it is disagreeable to his or her beliefs or view. The personal responsibility of the author of the reply comment to the post.

Using the flagging system to run people off the platform just because they may have posted something contrary to what the reader believes, is censorship plain and simple.

Junk posting

With the technology we have today we can fit the contents of the entire library of congress on a thumb drive. I doubt that the amount of so called “junk posts” would amount to more then 1% of the total content on the block chain.

Besides who’s call is it to determine what is junk? and whats not? Is a meme a junk post if it makes the reader smile? Is it junk if it up lifts someone out of mental depression? What if some one was contemplating suicide and a meme post with nothing else, caused that person to change their mind? Would that post be junk?

Every post on steemit has some type of value. It is someone expressing them selves. Condemning a post as junk is your personal opinion only! Again it returns to personal responsibility. Don’t like it don’t up-vote it. After all it is the community as a whole that decides what is junk and what is not, by the up-votes a post gets. Up-voting gets a post seen more. Don’t up-vote and the post buries its self.

There is no real need that I can see for the flagging system. If steemit is true to the statement of not being a censored platform then it needs to be removed. It is there now and it will eventually get abused by people in this community for personal vengeance because they seen a title that offended them or some other childish reason. I wish the developers to remove the flagging system. If nothing else, from view of the general population of the community.

I hope this was comprehensible. I hope that it is informative. I hope that it …. well anyway employ your personal responsibility and up-vote or not. Just do me a favor and remember this following message.

Every individual choice you make, good and bad is your very own personal responsibility. You and you alone Own it!