RE: Some info about my activity and my stance on flags
@acidyo,
I really love your point. Someone once flagged my post just after 30 minutes of me posting it on steemit. When I had received 2 upvotes and made $0.04 and was hoping for more this guy 'with 700SP flagged me and as a result my payout got reduced to 0 and my post became potentially useless and invisible to others. I couldnt understand how and why he did that. There was no reason fo that.
Is this even fair? I mean I get that he has more Steem Power, hence more control over posts but IS THIS HOW FLAGGING SOMEONE SHOULD WORK ? SHOULDN'T IT TAKE MORE FLAGS THAN UPVOTES TO HAVE SOMEONE'S POST DOWN RATHER THAN ONE PERSON DOMINATING THE SHOW ?
This scenario can occur often and may result in domination of such guys over the steemit network making steemit week as otherwise new steemians like me are going to loose faith in the system hence the currency itself. Thank you.
That's how it works here, a vote is only worth what the user's SP is. If this wasn't that way we'd see a lot more fake activity like on Reddit where 1 vote equals 1 vote which means there are shady services that people can buy 1000 votes on and pretend 1000 unique users have voted on a post.
But yeah, there's going to be all sorts of activity on a decentralized platform. My best advice is to let go and look forward to writing more posts and connect with likeminded people that appreciated reading your content.
Yeah, seeing this topic has been coming up A LOT lately, it's certainly been informative to learn what the flagging system is designed to do and I agree with it whole-heartedly in principal. That said, as a very small fish the fact that you stand a good chance of getting your content squashed just for excercising that option means that the majority of minnows are never going to flag anything so the system doesn't really get integrated at the lower levels.
Hence the whole freak out when it actually starts being used. For the time being I guess it remains a way for bigger players to 'voice their displeasure'