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RE: Who Needs Steemit Etiquette? - Steem Smart Podcast Ep. 11a

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Flag:

Flagging a post can remove rewards and make this material less visible. The flag should be used for the following:

Fraud or Plagiarism
Hate Speech or Internet Trolling
Intentional miss-categorized content or Spam

That's the purpose of a flag, as designed by the system, not your interpretation of what the flag was designed for. Click on it, it will tell you what the purpose of the flag is used for. You can make up whatever justification you want to use it, ok, but don't say that your reason is why it was introduced into the system. That's not accurate. I have used it to downvote porn as I don't see that as valid or desirable content. But that's not the original purpose of the Flag feature.

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    That's only been added recently. The white paper is clear that the definition of abuse is still fuzzy. I take the text you quoted as merely a draft, perhaps posted there as a way to calm all the downvote butthurt (which seems like a mistake), but not a definitive statement.

    don't say that your reason is why it was introduced into the system

    You've lost me. Everyone upset about flagging/downvoting wants to push their own personal opinions of how it's supposed to be used on everyone else, frequently speaking with greater authority than they actually command.

    My point remains that downvoting is part of this proudly-subjective system and can be used as one pleases. The white paper doesn't contradict this.

    I have used it to downvote porn

    Do you see that porn is not one of the reasons you yourself cited for what flagging should be used for, but you did it anyway? This is my point exactly: the use of flagging is subjective by design, just like the use of upvoting.

    You can legitimately argue for why you don't like flagging but you can't claim any authority but your own to back your position.

    Thanks for the comment!

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    I said:

    "You can make up whatever justification you want to use it, ok, but don't say that your reason is why it was introduced into the system. That's not accurate. I have used it to downvote porn as I don't see that as valid or desirable content. But that's not the original purpose of the Flag feature."

    I said, I used it for my justifications, but I'm not saying it's why the feature was created to justify why I do what I do. LOL. My point was about what it's intended purpose is for as per the Flag description which I pasted, and we can all make up any justification to use it, but let's not just say that our reasons are why the feature was made in the first place. Anyone can use the flag for any reason they choose, but that's different than saying the flag feature was meant to be used that way, when it isn't as per the description when you click on the flag option, it says what they intend to use it for. Thanks.

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