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RE: Can You Explain Why This Post Exposing an Alleged High Profile Scammer on Steemit is Censored, Despite a Ratio of 44 Upvotes to 1 Downvote!?
https://steemd.com/craigrant/@matrixdweller/craig-grant-caused-someone-to-comiit-suicide
That shows nextgencrypto and some others downvoted, and why it remained hidden at the time.
Why is it hidden and not censored though?
I'm not sure what you are particularly pointing to in the steemd link, it's a big page - where do I look to find the cause of the post being hidden? If I see downvotes that shouldn't automatically mean it is hidden, right?
I'm not sure what you mean by 'hidden and not censored'.
Its pretty clear why its hidden. Craig is a whale and has many minions.
ok, but he himself actually voted it up - so at best we can say he is running damage control and PR to mislead the community.
I think that 100% and 0.01% hold a small difference in weighting.
The same applies to weight differences between upvotes and downvotes. The problem with Steemit is that a whale powerful enough to smash through 40+ other up-votes to send it into the negative might feel inclined to shift their attention to others who use their voice in the face of perceived injustice.
Should push come to shove then I recommend a quick look through a self-defense post of mine - as there 'is' something that can hurt an errant whale.
Edit: Huh... a whale who almost exclusively relies upon curation dues. Does a lot of resteeming to improve exposure and add weight to his or her curation. This is a scenario that I had never contemplated in the anti-bullying thread - though less followers would still impact curation earnings on account of a more limited resteem outreach.
Of course, the first step is not to get into a fight in the first place - but that can be hard when one feels a responsibility to warn the community of something that appears off.
I read through your self defense post - thanks for sharing. In my own case though the large account that downvoted my post appears to have been a proxy account setup purely for that purpose and other related purposes. The account used by this individual for earning money on steemit is probably a different one - so threatening to inform his/her followers is not possible.
Hidden, as not visible but with choice over making it visible, hidden, and not censored.
The vote section shows that three people downvoted that, one of those being a whale.
Ah, I see now, yes - I didn't realise that nextgencrypto had so much SP.