I guess they call it being "flagged into oblivion"
Surprisingly it was not @smooth and @abit who did it. They were nice to the newcomer, though I was flagging all the big fish who supported them as feelings got hurt all over the place. I got really upset to see really nice posts being slammed, going from $15-20 down to $2 in the last day or so.
I came in all guns a blazing to try and undo the wrong being done. The UX Results are listed below one after another, I pasted them to a text file, prepping to write this post. I popped a few more bitcoins into my account after one "wealthy investor" said I should just be content to stay little and don't complain.
No
Not my style. I didn't plan on investing this much money on little Steemit, but if one guy wants to whip out his little willy and show people how big it is, I can counter. Nowhere near all in, I will try to keep people from resorting to ...
"... and suddenly pineapples." (take a look at @bkkshadow 's feed now - hilarious if it weren't so sad)
The plan is to use my Steem Power to upvote people who were downvoted, then flagging anyone associated with the power play. Smooth and abit are nice about it - they feel they were just running an experiment. Abit even told me I would need more SP and suggested I power up another account - hehe.
My point would be, if the whales are voting and ruining the experiment, then downvote the whales that are misbehaving. I guess I was the only one who sees it like that and has the guts to flag them, with a fresh account of course, some get flustered and fight back. The people below don't have the means to do that though.
Here is my first day in a nutshell - my comments contained this. . .
You should downvote the whales who are messing up your experiment! Instead you crush people who are TASTING a little success....
@fede93g said:
Downvoting a post will result in a reduction of the post's reward, that is paid out in Steem Power too. So, basically, by downvoting a post, you are simply creating a bigger inequality in Steem Power distributions.
It's like stealing from poor and honest people, acting like a reverse Robin Hood.
So, why should original content creator spend time and efforts to create original content just to get a downvote everytime someone gives them an upvote?
Congratulations, guys, you are destroying this platform!
Let's use the Flag function to flag copyright infringement and inappropriate content, come on!@elewarne said:
Re: Smooth Is Going Around Downvoting All My New Blogs!!!
CRAP! Down vote yourself and your buddies! @smooth@dwinblood said:
Silver lining (aka your upside) is that maybe they'll learn more about how NOT to do an experiment for future efforts.@barrydutton said:
Re: Time for a #SteemitStrike by Content Creators and Daily Users who actually make this Community what it is? Bring your Harpoons, the Whale Flag "Experiment" failed YUGE and here's why. Nope. There is no way the other collective weights of the handful of whale upvotes on THIS post -- let alone all the…@cm1 said:
Re: Benefits of Homeschooling Part 3
I believe it is inappropriate to flag/downvote an original post - especially one written by children. It@kafkanarchy84 said:
This experiment is driving people away, man. And the downvotes are not proportional anyway.
Lots of minnows being targeted by this. I think you are doing much more harm than good here, with your power. The market is going to remember. @berniesanders has come to his senses. I hope you will, too. This has been about as "scientific" as trying to fix a leaky faucet with a hammer.@barrydutton said:
I wrote a community encouragement post today, got 5 or more flags, killed the rep and payout, and I had a lot of time and thought into it but who cares, about encouraging content right that is then worth $1?
It was a failed experiment and these flags, with no start or end date, or announcement, are driving good people off here daily.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@barrydutton/steemit-people-i-m-thankful-for-mindful-community-engagement-encouragement-e-1-march-12-2017@elewarne said:
Re: With Black Bird - new painting
Then down vote all the high paying blogs! I noticed that was NOT happening, just me a little person got screwed! @smooth@jacobtothe said:
Re: And The Winners Are...
Dude, this is bullshit. Why do you feel a need to piss on someone else's parade?@elewarne said:
Re: With Black Bird - new painting
This is plain unfair and stupid...it means everything is rigged and all posts are of the same value...communism I think... @abit@goodguygreg said:
Re: Reports from the Witnesses 2017-03-12
^ Are the "Witnesses" paying any attention to this flagging clusterfk?@elewarne said:
Re: With Black Bird - new painting
What crap!!!! @abit@berniesanders said:
Fuck the flagging. I am no longer participating in the bullshit flagging experiment being run by @abit.
If you want to make Steemit more fair, CHANGE THE GODDAMN CODE. We've done it 15+ times prior to this, one more time shouldn't be that big of a deal...
For anyone else who feels obligated to participate, DON'T. You can do as you please with your SP.
flaggingbullshittest@jlufer said:
All the people you know know that my forte is not writing or writing, they also know, how hard I have tried to improve from the first day I came to the platform to this day, I am aware that I have much to Improve and I have shortcomings, to that I attribute to the little payment I have had all this time (This is not a complaint) is a reality that I see every day, but whether or not something won.
Because of my limitations, the work that takes a few hours to me takes me a whole day, the work I went up today titled Organic Food (the Corn) took me three days to do it, I had a low valuation of u $ S 3 dollars and for the negative votes I am $ u 1.00 s.
I live from what genre on the page, at this rate going well could get to collect a lot of wind in favor 30 dollars, who could live with 30 dollars.
Please do not misunderstand is not a complaint, nor am I blaming anyone, I have worked all my life in multinational companies I know how they think, when something you do not like you have to go.
I resigned to Disco Ahold International Holdings with 18 years of antiquity because I did not like the policitas that they had adopted against our same company, the result is of public knowledge to this group of Argentina it acquired the group Cencosud.
I want to say that I love this platform, I dedicate more than 14 hours a day working with all my mistakes, successes and mistakes, I am interacting 14 hours with a lot of people who want good for the platform, do not let this that was Working fine do not do it.
If I am or I am not for steemit it is the same, but the people who are in my situation who work to make money at some point will not interest you, I really do not know what might happen, but I would not want this to come down.
I repeat again is not a complaint, it is only a reflection from my humble situation and position.
You are the ones who know!
José Luis Fernández
Corrientes Argentina@berniesanders said:
ANYTHING is better than this bullshit stunt you've started. I actually have no opinion, but this is just moronic.@tradz said:
Wow! I've been complaining for the longest about not receiving rewards and NEVER received this much and was truly hoping to enjoy this payment ;(
I mean they took most of the rewards leaving me with $2+ what tha!!!!!!
https://steemit.com/family/@tradz/mulligan-fun-f0r-the-family
THIS is the reason why I was not liking(and still don't) the idea of this childish-ish. Why can't I enjoy this nice payout@least this one time and to top it off, I now have to wait longer for the payout?
What is going on here??????????????
@tradz said:
Exactly! My liquid StEEM will now go towards my Forex-Trading. I had planned on Powering it up but they pissed me off and so now, I WILL BE APART OF THE TOP ELITE FOREX TRADERS. NO MORE PLAYING AROUND ;(@jaybird said:
That's very interesting... However, I don't agree with down voting for the sake of experiment at another users expense. Down votes should be reserved for poor content! If you're putting out good content, unless someone genuinely perceives your content as unoriginal, or just plan bad...there should be no down vote and you should not suffer the consequence of reducing your post payouts that you probably deserve! just my .0002 cents ;)@macksby said:
I'm used to posting some pretty meaningful content (at least I think so)... But I won't be posting anything that takes more than 5 minutes until there little experiment over. Cheers, bro!@macksby said:
Maybe I'll do my version of latte art... LOL!
He blasted my post from 11-12 $$$ down to $2... It's not worth it
You seem to be on the fence, yourself...
This could really backfire and drive away anything resembling quality content...@anotherjoe said:
I rarely have much to say about the drama around here. It's just not worth it. But this has been the single most asinine and destructive thing I've seen on the Steem blockchain. Payouts being knocked down from over $30 to less than $5. Some are getting whacked into noseeum status.
The stench of these cronies playing with other people in this so-called experiment reeks of totalitarian despotism. Has a group ever gotten together and asked, "How can we destroy Steem and most effectively crush the morale of as many people as possible?" If they did, this was the answer.
As I mentioned to @steemitqa, it's akin to serving tables and every patron, plus your coworkers, having the ability to negate your tips. I've rarely seen something so vile that wasn't at the hands of the state, a corrupt corporation or a narcissistic sociopath (been ripped off by all of the above at one time or another).@papa-pepper said:
It seems to be showing itself as a failure more and more by the minute. Check the wallet of @abit and the recent messages and you will most likely be even more disappointed. Not exactly how to run a real "experiment."
Signature in posts:
This is sick shit you guys are doing to MY community on Steemit. I will blow twenty grand on flags before I let you run more experiments like this (without consequences)
Signed,
@thooms
The worst consequence the crushing of content. Me downvoting a few whales will make them think about what they are doing. *You really should have adjusted the code, then explain "It's only temporary" to the whales... Not the above mentioned.
Silenced and censored by @neoxian - the above content is still flagged "Low Ratings" by one guy. Now he writes kill pieces on me but never showed my motivation which is to help those mentioned in this post. I am the topic of his last two posts.
- No I am not going to split the Steemit blockchain! (delusional)
If you have a moment, you could vote to make my comments visible.
I was actually thanking people with steem for flagging the whales when I couldn't - takes guts to downvote someone with 2.5mm. Thanks guys! I will compensate anyone who helps the effort to make Steemit a better place.
I get nothing, nor ask for anything on my account. I am here to try to fix the frustration expressed by the listed profiles above. What I read was heartbreaking so I moved thousands into SP, sorry for the market spike, and I will be upvoting people who have their modest earnings zapped by @smooth and @abit - but I don't want to ruin the positive impact that the experiment is having on rewards. No 100% votes which would trigger another flag.
Please guys!
- Automated voting is cold.
- Automated flagging is theft!
I understand the reasoning behind what @smooth and @abit are doing. Good results so far!
- I get the numbers and how it would make the platform render more than just $0.00 for many hours then a whale vote for the lucky.
- That is, if we don't lose 20% of the the great content creators we had - now some have changed to pineapples - latte art - or just left temporarily.
- Give this post a ^ to keep it from turning invisible - I don't get anything from it. Thanks for reading.
I can't say I am the opposite of @smooth though I did oppose his methods, @htooms
Long time 🐟 turned 🐋 to have a voice.