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     8 years ago 

    I'm sorry I flagged(for the first and only time online) because out of context with no clues or tags, how it was originally posted all it felt like was negativity and attacky. Just a violent explosion, which IS exactly what poetry is all about. But if it just hits you in the face out of nowhere, you don't know what it's supposed to be, then how do you take it? I'm all for poetry and free speech, and would always love to see more and encourage it.
    Though I'd agree with the comment about "if it was tacked to a community bulletin board, how would you feel seeing it?" comparison, but not the flagged into oblivion and threatening part. This community needs to be supportive and encouraging of all artists, but protective too. Randomly yelling at people and intentionally trying to destroy somebody isn't something people do here, and I don't want it to be. I surely wasn't trying to do that myself.

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     8 years ago 

    This poem had multiple flags and zero comments when I found it shortly after it had been posted. It was already invisible, but I am paying close attention to @nommo's postings because I recently introduced him to steemit and believe his perspective will become valuable here. So I explained the situation in a comment. What part of that is threatening?

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       8 years ago 

      It was "the flagged into oblivion and never recover" part is what could be taken as threatening. And some people here DO use flagging to do that to other people, for entirely random reasons. But yes I didn't see that as a direct threat from you(yet skeptic included you as a flagger in their post, when you never were one) I could see that it may be just a warning about how the community would react to it.
      Maybe there's way too many misunderstandings going on here. I should have just commented from the start to try and see what was happening.

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         8 years ago 

        Because you presented it with zero context, this poem appears to be hate speech to the casual observer, @nommo.

        How would you interpret this if it were tacked to a community center bulletin board and you just happened to run across it?

        I strongly recommend that you edit this post to give the poem context. If you choose not to do this, the post will remain flagged into oblivion as hate speech, and your reputation on the site will likely never recover.

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           8 years ago 

          It is unfortunate that people aren't literate enough to comprehend this black man's perspective. But, for other's sake, I'll edit.

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           8 years ago (edited)

          please do not censor yourself.
          you should not be flagged no matter what you say.
          what was done to you is bullshit.
          im going to upvote and ask others to upvote to make your post not invisible.

          #istandwithhatespeech

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           8 years ago 

          You have no right to censor anyone for any reason.
          You are pre trained in the art of the flaggot, you should join the Steem-stapo.
          https://steemit.com/censorship/@skeptic/join-the-ss-steem-stapo-today

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           8 years ago 

          the same way i have to decipher which non-tippers care about workers.

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             8 years ago 

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