@fulltimegeek isn't happy with just killing a curation project like themadcurator off, he wants to kill off !popcorn too
@fulltimegeek is now flagging all @popcornexpress comments to try to kill off !popcorn because he is attacking anything related to @themarkymark.
Hidding his comments for a month isn't enough, he had to go and flag @themadcurator over 2,000 times to put an end to that selfless project that many loved. Now he is attacking another project people love !popcorn.
So far he has flagged 129 comments in the last 24 hours hiding all the comments in the last 7 days.
Trying to counter it is pointless as he uses 100 bots to micro flag and counters any counters.
But why is he flagging !popcorn or @themarkymark?
You can read about it here.
If you want the tl;dr.
He was posting 16K times a day and his @proboards account got blacklisted on @buildawhale. He tried to buy a vote to game the rep system to bring the account from -10 rep to a positive rep and it was denied. When he messaged @themarkymark asking for a refund he removed his witness vote and threatened to flag his account for life.
The post he wanted to promote? A link to a third party site, his argument was it was to "archive it on the blockchain" in case the site goes down. Let that sink for a moment, he is archiving a URL that may actually go down...
He felt that was worth 400 Steem in votes. Later he admits he was in fact really just trying to game reputation. But why not flag a curation project 2,000+ times, and flag @popcornexpress, and why not hide all @themarkymark's comments for a month, cause that's what heroes of the blockchain do!
and the best part
The post was flagged to $0.00 by Steem Cleaners and many other witnesses.
The irony of it all is he comes to Steem to avoid censorship, and then that's what he tries to do.
@llfarms
@themarkymark
@themadcurator
@fulltimegeek Don't pick on popcorn.
Themarkymark, you have been awarded 2 drama tokens.
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I hope @fulltimegeek stops his flagging. I don't know what kind of argument calling his flagging censorship is, clearly nobody can be suppressed, people can continue to post and engage with whoever they want even at - 1,000,000,000,0000 reputation, so stop calling it censorship, it only furthers the bullshit of @smidge-tv and the like (@skeptic)..
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It's not censorship, but he is trying to do that. He targets comments instead of posts so you can't talk. Unless you are willing to upvote your comments to $5 you can never make them visible as he just comes back with another one of the 100 bots to bring them visible. Resulting in the ability to hide a users voice for 10 cents a day.
Smidge-tv was flagged due to spam and then flagged later due to harassment, threats, and posting libel.
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Well I'd much rather ridicule him for his futility and waste of Voting Power you know what I mean?
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I agree, I don’t think it’s censorship.. and I don’t even think it’s waste of VP as I think is should go back into the reward pool rather than voting some of the people he does (smidgetv) but it’s not censorship.. and I say that as someone who has been flagged more than 300 times this week.. it’s just @fulltimegeek being a dick and a bully. But that’s just my humble opinion.
You know what's ironic about all this, I was the one who a couple of years ago, almost to the day exposed @hthoms flagwar against @fulltimegeek, when he did not even bother to acknowledge that he was being flagged for about 2 straight weeks.
https://steemit.com/community/@baah/people-quit-due-to-downvote
Back then I was calling @whatsup all kinds of names and @bernie was on @fulltimegeek's side. Before I realized that Bernie was the one running @iflagtrash. O how the times are changing.
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!popcorn
I miss @skeptic though. :) I do agree.
Maybe he's gonna make a comeback, all this censorship talk lol.
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Does Steem cleaners handle people like this? This drama people cause is not good for the block chain.
Steem Cleaners do not get involved other people's flags, they only handle distributing flags.
Maybe you should just make a new one called !potatochips (:
Is !popcorn appropriate at this time?
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Why wouldn't it be?
I didn't know if this was good drama or bad drama. 😁
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Bad, but such is life when you have children with money.
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An absolute shame. I truly am baffled how anyone can think that this stupid flagging nonsense is good for the chain.
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Flagging is good for chain sustainability. The problem is when people use them maliciously and not for the good of the platform.
Yeah I’m not saying get rid of flagging. I’m saying it’s s problem when I bring someone new here and they see that it’s like kindergarten in here with powerful toddlers.
I know why you think that, but ultimately its not good. If Steem grows to be significant in the eyes of major corporations, governments and mainstream media, it can be a tool for shutting down alternative viewpoints. That would defeat the point of this blockchain completely, and it is for this reason I wish I could convince others to realize that flagging is not in step with Steem's primary value add: immutable expression.