CERTAIN THINGS SOMETIMES CAN'T BE IGNORED. MY INTRODUCTION AND MY HUMBLE REQUEST.

in #stewardsofgondor7 years ago (edited)

I have been aware of the struggle that has been underway on Steemit for some time concerning two sides. On one we have a monstrous leech draining the life blood from this wonderful place, on the other a group of concerned community members trying to fight a damn good fight fro damn good reasons. To the good guys, I would like to start by simply saying thank you. You have my admiration and my most sincere and humble gratitude for all of the hard work you put in. You are wonderful people and set one hell of an example for us all to follow here on Steemit.

As the flagging war got into full swing I simply watched. It was to high above me for me to do anything about and my involvement wouldn't carry any weight ON STEEMIT. In truth I have carried on with my normal routine figuring the problem would eventually be dealt with and slowly Steemit as a community would right itself. But a little over a week ago a line was crossed when I noticed fledgling users (minnows) began being flagged for simply having good intent or using a certain name on their posts. Users who had no clue as to the full scale and scope of the conflict that's underway getting their accounts destroyed.... and that's when my work started. I involved myself completely... But not on Steemit. I don't believe the battle can be won strictly on Steemit using only flags. I set into motion, and done a great deal of ground work, to put more power into the hands of those on Steemit who want to push back.

ARROGANCE AND ANONYMITY NEVER SHARE THE SAME ROOF FOR LONG:
Being arrogant and being anonymous consistently never works for long. Mistakes are made throughout.. Normally in the beginning rather than later on. The mistakes that are made and often not seen as mistakes at first. They are. There is always a way to exploit these. An individual can use the best VPN in the world, execute all their online activity through a TOR browser and take all precautions to hide themselves and yet still be found. Make decisions that make their weaknesses easy to exploit, and above all be held accountable in a completely legal yet incredibly inconvenient way. I normally would be loath to take these steps but I'm not going to watch the little guys get kicked any longer without a means to strike back.

So my mission is simple:
1: I will be politely asking that minnows are no longer flagged no matter what they say or do.
2: If that request is not met I will begin to place more and more tools into the hands of those on Steemit to fight back in a variety of ways that haven't been considered yet. As a preface, these are incredibly legal means that would worry any wealthy individual.
3: With each warning I will release a new tool if not complied with. This will be my way of smacking a disobedient pudgy middle aged child who here to forth with has believed himself invulnerable and unknown.

The next post I create will be my warning shot. Though to some it may seem extreme it is only the tip of the iceberg. It will be my polite way of offering a peace and I will back out of the conflict and leave it to everyone else of high rank (60 or above) to deal with. I simply want a cessation of trying to silence minnows for simply trying to have a voice. I think that the flagging war should be restricted to 60 and above and if lesser ranked users wish to have a say or unite they should be able to do so. This is the right to assembly and freedom of speech and will not be silenced by bigger entities.

Now despite my wish for this warning to be taken seriously I fear it won't be. It will be met with denial of nationality, (this is important and you will see why later)y arrogance, and scoffing... Not to mention flagging. The last I could care less about. I do not want to have to release personal details of the main culprit as I do not want to endorse violence or irrational behavior in others towards this individual in the real world. I have those details, so I am genuinely hoping not to have to use them. They are my red button option if reason is not seen and the bullying of lesser members CONTINUES. Before I resort to that method I have a myriad of tactics that I can assure you all are the embodiment of inconvenience, and I will happily share them as I create problem after problem for our problem. Having said all that I genuinely don't want to. The request I'm making I'm making humbly and politely. I will only be assisting @fulltimegeek and those he works with until this request is adhered to. If it is, and if the main self voting culprit stops that one thing (bullying minnows) I will take myself and all of his IN DEPTH personal information and go away. I believe after that, @fulltimegeek and any others working on the good guys side will be able to handle this problem or at least find a compromise. If a group of new users get together to participate then they should be allowed to without fear of reprisal. The self voting fight is not mine to fight so I will not weigh in on it. The next post to come will be the first of my warning shots. It is already underway and you all can take part. It's an approach for you all to use as it will simply add weight to what I have already started and set into motion. I will be patient after the post to see what happens and provide every opportunity for my simple request to be acknowledged. I am not going to engage in comments or what I plan to do next. I don't want to reveal to much. So @fulltimegeek, you now have my help. @iknowwhoyouare has joined your ranks.

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Thank you my friend!

Thank you for sticking up for people!

Hi @lyndsaybowes who exactly is he sticking up for?

Accounts with under 60 reputation who have been destroyed by @haejin, for no other reason than speaking out, and disagreeing on rewards.

But its not like @haejin attacks people for nothing the way the bernie sanders group of accounts does !
He only returns the attack because they are attacking him.

From my perspective there are far worse abuses occurring on the platform by those promoting themselves our unappointed dictators.

He's basically taking all this money out of the steem reward pool – which takes away from the minnows – de-incentivising people to join, and even if they do . While it's all very well to say that his content is several hundred times better than everyone else's, it leads to issues with steem as a platform. Becuase after all this is a social media platform, and it needs more users to succeed.

Hi @missioncontrol
'He's basically taking all this money out of the steem reward pool which takes away from the minnows'

Over the next seven days there is still 97.81% of reward pool left to share. its the big players who promote flag wars who will be collecting most of it. There wont be much left for you or I.

And the 2.19% of the reward pool he will get, is still a long way from being the 6% of the reward pool that was claimed by the promoters of this flag war at the beginning.
If people making money on the platform attracts more people here how the fuck is he harming the platform?

The fact that there are a few people making lots of money makes people think that they can't succeed.

I do not believe that, and i would be interested to look any evidence you have to support that claim.

If anything it draws more people to the platform.

Its high time that people people stopped being so sycophantic and started challenging the real abuses going on here in plain sight

Full-time geek is a hero. I wish more whales were as generous as him. The site's not going to work with just a couple of whales and millions of minnows. I don't even have enough bandwidth to post my next blog. We should be allowed to exceed our bandwidth temporarily until we get our next payment. Otherwise we can't even answer questions. I hope you slay the steam Hogs!!! I found another person sucking a lot of steam out of the system 1800 SBD, and sending it to a dummy account. I'm not sure if I should expose him here????

Very good @iknowwhoyouare! I will help you to find an audience!!! Glad to see you on the right side of this battle and sticking up for the little guys!

@iknowwhoyouare you have been invited to the discord channel for Flag a whale...

Here is the link:

https://discord.gg/JwGfHJ

Go tell them what your plans are! :)

It's not clear on wich side you are ... but I appreciate your post !!!
You say you do not want minnows to be flagged but also that they are good guys and bad guys ?! What about minnows that are not with the good guys ?!

I'm really curious to see your next post, but like I said to another threatening steemer, it's dangerous to use hacking tools to hurt people, just because they can do you the same and worse.

Just saying, it's stupid to have all your personal information posted on the web, having your computer/phone hacked, having to change IP or worse, having police on the door because you have in some drugs, weapons or an isis flag in your postbox (it's easy to send you some forbidden stuff without being known, just need your address), etc.

Again I do not know wich 'side' you are but take care, it's dangerous, it's just ridiculous having IRL serious problem just for a stupid online flag war ... but if you really believe in what you do, just do it !!!

Peace 😉😉😉😉😉

Hi @adri1202, you sure like to protect the cave troll. I'm wondering if you know the whole story on why this Quest is happening. Would you like to know the truth, or do you wish to keep believing we are jealous of his 'success'.? I'm open to conversation. You seem like a reasonable person :)

Hey @lyndsaybowes I would love to hear your whole story.
It seems most likely that this whole thing is scam that went wrong

I hope they listen anbd I hope you can all settle it soon. I love steemit and I think it has a great community. It's sad that like in real life domwon e has to take advantage of that and try to ruin it for the rest. Best of luck!

right on...should be more like you around town

Woah!!!!

This is damn amazing!!

Sharing this on a few places so more people know whats going down in steem town!

Thank you for your wonderful effort!