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RE: Payouts with zero votes? What's going on here?
No data is being removed, you can still access the spam from other front ends or even your own if you put one up.
The process is being limited to extreme cases and is not used without heavy consideration.
I would much prefer you, I, and every other account holder be availed this power, as it indicates that slippery slopes to censorship that pose literal existential threats to subjects of tyrannies exist on the Steem blockchain.
That would be ideal, but there is no implementation in place to make this happen. The problem is fulltimegeek is spamming more comments a day than the entire blockchain combined. A stopgap solution had to be put in place to prevent the entire site being consumed by spam.
Since this has become a problem, it's time to implement such a long term solution. The present stop gap measure has the potential to become a permanent power to censor, and that transformation of temporary measures to permanent tyranny would not be the first time such a thing had happened. The US income tax is a good example. Hell, every tax is. Instituted to deal with some issue as a stop gap, they become permanent.
I don't think this is an issue that should just be glossed over. This is a fundamental attribute of Steem, and the primary metric that imbues Steem with value to me. I can post blogs or rants anywhere and be censored. I came here so that I wouldn't be censored, and this is censorship.
Steem flirts with an existential danger to it's existence by taking such a stop gap measure without immediately and effectively preventing that from becoming a permanent tyrannical imposition. If this power remains centrally imposed, Steem will eventually lose all value to me. It will no longer have any claim to being censorship resistant, and will simply follow the lead of Fakebook, Twatter, and Goolag in being the prime censor of it's users.
This needs fixing every bit as urgently as pics of poop. Even moreso IMHO.