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To be honest, part of the reason I'm doing this is to test drama on steem.

I have some money / crypto to play around with, return from investments and crypto sales.

When this happened to me, and I downvoted people, after a bunch of down votes they started getting less and less powerful. I started thinking about putting more money in.

Then I thought wow, what if this situation arose often? People with even more money to spend / invest, getting involved in some sort of drama, and then putting more and more money into steem to fuel their drama, interesting. I decided to put more money in to see where it would go, and am very interested to see if things like this keep happening in the future.

All these shitposting bloggers feeding on breadcrumbs by posting the same spammy news over and over and a picture of their backyard or pet or something should not be all steemit is used for.

I don't have a problem with them and would not have gone into their posts to down vote their useless drivel if they didn't do it to me

people that "test drama" are called trolls. the more you know.

His ex post facto justification is getting funnier and funnier.

Really not a fan of copyrights either, they seems to have it backward. They think the blockchain should prioritize the reward to their original content, they don't get that it's the stake holders that decide.

I agree that that this girl is far from a model but that's what we have so far in terms of "exclusive" content.

Seems like your low rep has muted you without a downvote on steemit, first time I see that.

you realize the main reason things got so bad for el-mago was the spam flagging accounts citing plagarism

Flagging abusive behavior and plagiarism is not abuse or censorship. Look at his comment history. It's not hard to verify which party was in the wrong, making threats and tossing insults.

indeed. calling people whores isn't helping your stance much.

I'm not interested in looking much further in his post history ;0
But flagging something below 0$ is shown by steemit.com as censorship.

I advise seeking the necessary info to make an informed decision.

The content remains. Nothing is censored. Disapproval is not censorship.

Asking people to click 3 times more to show the content is "a bit like" censorship.

Not even close.

Censorship:
"You can't read this." Content is actually blocked and actively removed.

Not censorship:
"The general community has flagged this post as objectionable. Do you want to continue?"
"This user has a low reputation. Do you want to see the content anyway?"

That would be an informed audience and public information, not censorship.