RE: Anti-Abuse Initiative Weekly Update [Feb 8 -14]
The folks at Utopian and Steemflagrewards have no bots that flags people automatically.
Steemcleaners has many bots but I am not sure if any of them flag before a person checks them out? You could ask @patrice, @guiltyparties, @logic or one of the other steemcleaners hired by the witness @anyx to run steemcleaners for him.
I really think you are mistaken about our tactics. Maybe you have individuals who flag confused with community groups who are trying to do a good thing for steem. Most of us doing the difficult and unforgivable work of flagging have barley any sp ourselves. That is why we can not do any thing against large abusers. We would like to see more involved and more having a say but many are so disconnected from reality its an impossible task.
Im not sure why there is not an instant messaging service here so we don't have to use discord? It is more than likely a coding issue? But it is what it is.
Thanks.
Actually, last year #patrice tried to help me help a newbie who made a simple post about small plot farming in Africa - and #hae---- (you can guess who) flagged him all the way to zero, flagging all his posts. patrice told me the flagger is too big to fight a flagging war with, so I talked about it to various posters and they told me of experiences of theirs. I was not just grand-standing, there are a number of good people who left here because they did not like these bullying tactics.
If you are going to flag, then #cheetah is not a bad example, never attempting to destroy, but to handicap so that the poster learns that plagiarising and scamming, does not pay.
Two of those I have helped, afterwards admitted to me they were in the wrong, but because I helped them, they decided to try to do what is right. I only kept an eye on them for a few weeks, so I cannot confirm they kept their word. However, I prefer to use some carrot with the stick, not just the stick.
The group that unfairly flags, I cannot recall their full name, it is something with 'whale' in it and they warn people that this poster in in their black list. Them and some like them, I will always fight, for the poster has to beg to be forgiven....and I mean literally beg and humiliate themselves. I saw one person be forgiven because he had begged and begged to the point where I could not bear to read the humiliation of his pleas.
Please keep in mind that usually there are two sides to every problem and if you can, lead the idiot who broke the rules to find out that he has not arrived somewhere where he is the only clever one who sees the opportunities...for that is how most of them think. They need to learn that we will not allow them to succeed, but if they try to improve, we'll help them. It does not alway work, but when it does, it feels good.
Perhaps, as we have curators, we should also have mentors?
I keep getting two comments by enforce in my Replies section, but then they instantly disappear - the one of them is an insult about my being old and senile.
I am not that senile (I still like to learn), for I wonder and want to know, how do you do it? How can it appear everytime I first access my Reply page and then disappear?