Yeah, you can hide your posts, but that will not delete the original. It just doesn't show up anymore here in steemit.com.

Steem is worth several hundred million dollars now. Being a witness is serious responsibility. There shouldn't be any kind of conflict of interest, like you have now. Any other project shouldn't be dependent

One really important point is that normal people don't want to use volatile currencies. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been really volatile which has scared a lot of people away. Steem is in really

I think it's great that @abit is trying to game the system as well as he can. It's good to find the weak points of the liquidity rewards mechanism as soon as possible, so it can be updated to produce more

Steem works on a blockchain. You can't delete anything, everything is stored permanently.

I'm highly against tieing other projects to witness status. Witnesses should be voted first and foremost based on how well they do their job, which is to secure the blockchain and keep it running reliably.

I'm not sure if we really need a referral program. Steem is so freakin' awesome platform that it will market itself pretty much automatically without any added incentives. Things have just started and

Nobody is taking away the freedom to post. The purpose of downvoting is just to make sure that plagiarizers don't get any rewards.

Explain how? I'm pretty sure that more damage is done to Steem when spammers get rewarded with articles that they haven't written themselves. Steem should reward original content, not copypaste. If a spammer

It was plagiarized post, not written by him.

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That's why we need tools for it. It'd like to be able to mark users so that I'll see immediately if they have done something unwanted earlier. But of course this is mostly a job for bots. Once a spammer

You are ruining the reputation of your account. Everything is stored in the blockchain so you can never hide your rude behavior.

I just want to make sure that you don't get paid for this content because you didn't write it. Plagiarizing is undesirable behavior, especially when you are trying to make money with it.

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For mass plagiarizers it might be good idea to downvote everything that they post so that their accounts will become useless. In the blockchain reputation is everything. When you lose the reputation of

In the text you claim to be the author of the video. So you are impersonating and deserve a downvote. I've been beta testing the Steemit publishing platform for a couple of months and now that it has

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