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RE: Forget free speech, paid speech is coming
Irrespective of how Steem was intended to function, it has become a platform where you can pay to be heard. At least Dan is honest about it... Steem has become a platform that encourages rogue illegal content, hate speech, and other abuse, in addition to paid speech. At least the bid bot owners have guidelines in place so the harmful content is suppressed.
If you want to fix flagging abuse, you'll have to significantly overhaul how Steem works. In its current state, abusive flagging is a fundamental feature of the platform.
I have to agree that you are right, in every respect.
From a staunch supporter to a disillusioned critic. I think it takes about 1.5 years - 2 years. 😕
At this point id just leave it all alone. The flag abuse, the mentally unstable whales, the bid bot perversion, the selfishness, the circle jerks. Leave all that alone since there is no fixing it. Right now someone like Bernie or ftg do more bad for the platform then a community of a couple hundred people could ever do good, to cancel it out. Thats just the way it is. People ask how can people like dictators exist. People that when given power turn to hurting others and abusing that power. You can observe the same thing here on a platform where you are encouraged to share, to do good, to avoid conflict, to help people because that is good for your investment, some will still choose to be abusers. (In the literal sense of the word)
When steem was made, i dont think human nature and other things related were accounted for.
Give a mentally unstable person or a real life abuser 500k and see what happens. And a lot can happen.
Those things should have been accounted for, and tools put in place to counter it.
Powers that be are either incompetent to change anything or fear the response so they dont want to change anything.
So i say, instead focus on hype and marketing. Get Steem talked about. Embellish things if need be. The onboarding is terrible so our focus shouldnt be on getting people here, they will come when the price goes up...
The community still has maybe 2-3 whales that can move the community to do something positive. Thats the best bet. Move our asses and hope the abusers will eventually sell out and leave.