RE: Flagwar statement: @fulltimegeek, @berniesanders, @themarkymark
Careful now, stating anything the “Steem messiah” does around here as wrong is frowned upon 😉 you might end up in a spammers next comment!
All kidding aside, I think I agree with most of your points here and feel this is just getting silly. Thank you for being realistic with observing the wrongs among all three. Even if I don’t agree with all the details here, I feel they are all wrong in one way or another.
While flags don’t technically “hurt” the place, I feel that shit like this hurts the morale and outward appearance of it which can have long term effects. It seems that many enjoy the drama too much and will continue to fuel the fire though.. and well, that doesn’t really feel like anyone who cares about Steem to me.. even if they claim “innocence” in it all.
While I have been one who has campaigned to fix many of the past issues here, at this point I’ve even stopped caring. With the now attacks on curation groups, I don’t really feel much like doing any manual curation.. and as someone who has been a huge supporter of manual curation and the community as a whole, that’s pretty sad.
To move this place to the next level, we have to find a way to solve these issues or filter them out.. or we can just ignore and try to focus on the small good things, but eventually this effects everything. When everyone stops caring.. well 🤷🏻♀️
Anyways, sorry for my ramblings.. thanks for speaking out on the issue.
I guess I had been wanting to pull my energy from this for a while now and I felt my fingers dragged to the keyboard yesterday, out in one! Fringe being that I may be, I have felt kinda involved - perhaps as a result of writing those two letters I linked to. Makes this post the third point of the triangle, my self-extrication from the combat zone :).
You're right that the blockchain is bigger than these battles and will not be 'hurt' as such - my graphic was rather sensationalist in this regard lol. It looks like my expression of anger/frustration/sadness at the issue more than a reflection of reality :)
Caring or not does seem to be a major factor - the quality of this 'care', and what is 'cared' about/for. And it seems that caring for all manner of things is on display (pride, status, perceptions of others, self-importance, schadenfreude....), save for the sensitivities of the hurting, feeling, inner child, whose cries of pain and anguish translate into weapons (if one has the power), or else tomatoes and rotten fruit thrown from the galleries. I guess in this sense, care = empathy = having some notion of the 'other's' emotional position on the issue in addition to one's own. When there is a perception of pain/vulnerability/feeling in the other (and of course people, especially men, are conditioned to conceal such things, for they are signs of weakness), it is harder to 'attack', for this is a reflection of one's own feelings. To attack nonetheless therefore, also has the quality of self-violation.
I read your post on this issue, and I have seen you around the blockchain. I know you have done a great deal to promote content and community and I know you have often been on the receiving end of sticks and stones. IMO, your communication skills are excellent!
Many thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts @llfarms 🔆
