I grew up with too many bullies. I don't like to see them on Steemit. @haejin is being attacked.

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

I wonder if user accounts can be deleted. If not, I wonder if a hard fork could implement such.

Bullies Suck

My folks raised me Christian, and encouraging the "turn the other cheek" lesson meant I was a punching bag for the other schoolchildren. Later as an adult, my Mom has said several times that "turn the other cheek" was the worst mistake she's made in parenting.

Later I learned Tae Kwon Do, and wrote an accounting package for the Grand Master as well. I wonder if I still have that anywhere? It was DOS in character mode, before Windows, and I had programmed expanding and collapsing borders and sub-windows for the students and late accounts etc. Anyway, memories -- those from before the first concussion are generally intact. (He treated me to my first sushi meal! :) )

But Tae Kwon Do was after I had graduated college. Before that...

Unexpected Life Lesson

The year before I went off to a private high school, about a month before it ended, I got sick of the abuse and started fighting back. It blew my frakking mind that those who were terrorizing me, became my friends! They were short-lived friendships though, as I was elsewhere the following year.

But what a lesson! You don't make friends by being a doormat.

You make friends by demonstrating that you can help them out when they're in a bind.

 

That's not a lesson that's ever taught, at least to my knowledge -- that "fighting on the playground" makes friends, and it's because you show that you will be able to assist them. That's so weird to me, but, it's what I experienced! (I didn't innerstand the "help them out" part until more recently.)

Violence as children is normal; and, being able to defend against it -- and, not initiate it -- should be taught by parents. And, to sometimes initiate it playfully, because play-fighting is a form of exercise, and experience, and bonding.

Call to Action

@haejin is a loving, wonderful man who is sharing his accumulated knowledge with us at no cost to himself. He has been upvoted by some whales recently, and other whales have decided to attack him, saying that it's "unfair" that he's rewarded so much for his positive efforts.

I wonder whether a hard fork might be able to remove an account, perhaps by adding a directive to delete a user. And, perhaps that directive already exists -- although I did a search, and only found discussion of deleting posts and comments.

So, I wonder if user accounts can be deleted, and if they can't, whether this could be added to stop abuse. It could even include modifying the deleted account's home page, adding fields to retrieve the value from it somehow -- don't want to steal from anybody.

I know exchanges have difficulty with STEEM (or at least, Poloniex does) so sending it might not work well, but it could integrate with e.g. blocktrades.us or Changelly or ShapeShift (or all three!), so they could extract it in Bitcoin or any other supported coin.

Would a petition for this make sense? And who would it be to -- @dan and @ned make good sense; is there a "Steemit Board of Directors" or something? @steemcleaners? Others? If you think this is a good idea, or a terrible idea, or is ripe for abuse itself, etc. -- let me know. I'll take this ball and run with it if it makes sense.

Thanks.




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Man, it is a problem, but I am afraid if deleting accounts becomes an option it will just escalate the war. Who gets to decide who gets deleted? It seems to me the rep score needs to be put to better use. If you have a crappy rep, your flag is weakened, maybe?
Love your doormat story. When I went from elementary school to the BIG Jr High, some girl decided to pick a fight with me. I was a pussy cat, not a fighter... but I can bluff like a poker player! I threw my books down, puffed up and said something like "Lets go then!" and she suddenly did not want to fight any more... People are odd little ducks. Everyone wants to be the tough guy, no one really wants hit!

Agreed. Such a weird lesson! "Assault" prevents "battery"! Assault being the threat of force, and battery being a light touch. Messed up world we live in!

I'm getting discouraged. Fuck berniesanders.

Less discouraged now, seeing @haejin got over a thousand followers in a single day thanks to Bernie helping to raise his visibility! :)

Wrote this just now: https://steemit.com/steemit/@libertyteeth/fishing-for-berniesanders-accounts-found-60-of-them-pray-for-him-pray-those-demons-out

I totally can feel you! 100% upvote

so nice blog..

everyday is a lesson day to learn something new.

Very true. "You don't make friends by being a doormat." that rely touched me. A lot of folks takes Christians for fools.

Many Christians are fools. Galatians 3:1 Too many of the Christian fellowship and church think the Ostrich is the "national bird".

I wonder. The Good book even says, wisdom is profitable to direct and in all our getting we should get understanding. What do we need again for an eyeopener?

i think it's the weak point of steemit, i too am looking for solutions for this problem, but none,

The story is very nice and i get a new experience for you...

yeah i also agree with you

Are they flagging him because he for plagiarism or because he is just making a ton of post that is getting tons of upvotes @libertyteeth.?

The plagiarism is only in my comments, and I just made a table showing where all the four articles @shencoin had been downvoted for actually came from. It really irks me that people lie like that. Bald-faced lie, too, after being called out on it.

@haejin is not plagiarizing anybody. He is making videos using his knowledge of the Elliott Wave and chart pattern formations, and he's incredibly accurate -- over 90% of his calls are profitable. He's not breaking any rules, other than made-up ones of angry whales.

Sticking out for a friend. I like that @libertyteeth.

@libertyteeth no weapon formed shall prosper against @haejin.....We call forth blessings from heaven

#prophets

Bullies is the worst thing on the Internet/Life. I wrote a post about it as well. I feel you! so sad that kids are so mean.