RE: Anti-Abuse Initiative Weekly Update [Feb 8 -14]
Are you now also creating competitions to see who can abuse more posters - who usually turn out to be new or poor?
Let me paint you an anology, @arthur.grafo. We're all on a rowboat and every man has his oar. In order for the boat to move optimally, every man must do their part. On our way we given rations for our work and the supply is limited.
Ideally, every person does their share of paddling and gets their ration. Simple idea, huh? Only thing is not everybody wants to do their paddling. If everybody does their paddling, we all benefit from the added momentum. In order to discourage the folks that don't want to do their share, there must be an incentive or, in our case, a disincentive for not wanted to help the collective.
Enter the flag.
What you and I are doing when we flag appropriately is sending a message to the individual that no, it's not cool to not carry ones weight and try to receive the same incentive. What you are doing by upvoting instead is undermining that process.
You think you are doing them a favor but really they need to learn. You are everyone else working hard a disservice. I disagree with your notion that because a user is poor or new that we should a turn blind eye to them trying to take advantage of a system that serves us all providing it's working properly.
Flag are part of that proper functioning system and hope you understand their utility. If not now, perhaps some day down the road.
I do not know how many pages I have read on this subject, argued by those pro-flagging and those against it and I do not see any of the pro flaggers willing to consider the points made by the other side as only their own point of view is valid...to them. Of course they have the advantage that the same whales who kill Steemit with their stupid posts being rewarded ($1400 for a post with one photo - sorry, not a photo, a stupid snapshot lacking any talent or beauty) are backing the flaggers, since it helps prevent new growth and new whales being created. Can you imagine how bad they would look if whales who have talent came into existence?
I do not say that a plagiarist should be rewarded, what I object to is using bots, which having found similar material elsewhere, punishes by flagging...without it being capable of reading and understanding that the poster has already mentioned that this post is a copy of an article he wrote in his own blog site - or, as I saw recently an article was copied by the poster AFTER he secured permission from the original author.
There is also a difference between flagging and Flagging-en-masse so as to take the poster all the way down to zero rep. That I will always fight against.
At least you argued your case, which is how it should be done, not like that stupid comment by #enforcer who tried to insinuate I have no brain.
Mutes someone, and expects someone to treat them as if they have a brain.
#oldandsenile.