RE: I Should Be Writing About Gaining 1000 Followers - Instead I Have To Address A Bigger Issue
First off congratulations on your 1000! This is a wonderful achievement us minnows can only dream of one day. This was a very eye opening article since my pals in #yunk have run across people like this also. I didn't know how malicios some people could be on this platform until my steemit buddy @krazykrista said in the #yunk channel that there was someone really being truly terrible. Since being new and apparently naive to steemit I just imagined him saying a few terrible things or just trolling a bit.
When I saw @krazykrista 's post Bilalhaider is on a mission to ruin steemit chat. I was so appalled by how his actions were so spiteful and their words were so advisedly. He was attacking everyone in the chat room for trying to help him. He was complaining that he had good followers, but his post lack attention or reward. They were simply trying to tell him to improve his content after reviewing his page. The whole thing switched over like he was a ticking time bomb lying in wait for someone to poke him with a "you need to actually do work" stick.
Reading this sickens me @krystle. I'm sorry that you and @austibank have to deal with this sort of human garbage on here. @austibank has been so supportive to me since the beginning. Heck he was my first real witness vote and it was out of the blue. I think he just saw that I had potential to help the community. I'm so sorry about the things that they're saying about your kids, people should never make it that personal even if they would don't mean it in the first place. Anyone that goes to that level should be reviewed regardless of their intent.
The whole mission of our #yunk is to provide a better place on the internet and internet platforms. What if this is the first belief system just for the internet? IRL people have their manners and their etiquette, but when it comes to their online window, more things tend to be permissible. What if this gave you a sense of best practices for your fellow digital man? What if we needed something to let us know that community can become stronger than a troll? What if yunk becomes such a belief of existence on the internet that it connects people organically from just hearing the term yunk alone?
I'm baffled to what people hope to gain for being this cruel on here. They won't have a long shelf life on this platform and they won't have much in the form of support from the like minded. We're here to grow a community and help each other. People that go directly the opposite of that belong on 4chan.
Congratulations again on your achievement and forget what those rotten cancer people have to say.
Thanks so much for your kind words, and I absolutely agree people need a moral compass to help them with empathy online.
Steemit has been an amazing place, I'm one year in and so far I have had maybe three bad experiences - obviously this is the worst by far, but steemit itself has been an overwhelmingly supportive in general.
I try to stay away from negativity and that is why the post is more of an explanation, to our followers about our actions and not encourage them to act on the info - especially if the flagging continues.
I've been here a year and he will have difficulty hurting me, but if others with more power join his cause - it could damage my account permanently.
Steemit is the perfect place for us to all get along, I hope to soon enjoy being a happy helpful member of this community again.
Cheers