I'm on hold as far as bringing new people to this platform.
I'm ashamed of the flagging wars.
I'm ashamed of the negative downvoting when people could be posting positively for content they like.
I'm ashamed to see the fighting over the reward pool.
Why does Steemit have such slow growth? I've been wondering this for a while and have a few theories.
One of them is the behaviour shown by B.S. amongst others, the flagging wars and the use of bots for abuse in general.
So, what happened this time?
B.S. (aka Randowhale) makes an abusive posts with swearing and accusing the steemit community of cowardice for not obeying his call to stamp on his chosen victims.
I didn't flag or downvote him - I just commented that his post (with swearing and threats) is no example for the community.
I also added that I was sure he'd show cowardice himself by censoring my comment.
He did.
He then also downvoted a random innocent travel post of mine.
Ironically the post he downvoted was a demo-post made as a teaching example to a new user. What will he think? How does this censoring come across to new users and old?
Is this an adult playground or a serious blogging platform for the conveying of thought, information and ideas?
B.S's behaviour and his actions and the fact they are allowed, in my mind, represent a serious flaw in Steemit as a platform.
How can an account with a minus reputation be allowed to wield such power?
Look at the downvotes. Theses are all fake accounts - as in not run by a unique individual. All bots run by Randowhale aka Bernie Sanders
Here is the original post. Harmless or needing to be flagged?
https://steemit.com/travel/@tarquinmaine/back-riding-a-350-bullet-in-india
This post was to encourage my friend mentioned to post about his bike restorations.
How is my friend going to view this behaviour?
Playground bullying?
I'm on hold as far as bringing new people to this platform.
I'm ashamed of the flagging wars.
I'm ashamed of the negative downvoting when people could be posting positively for content they like.
I'm ashamed to see the fighting over the reward pool.
What do you guys think?