Thank You, Justice Was Done: But!

Thank You, Justice Was Done: But... Time to Step Up!

As I was finishing my last post here, I was telling you that I would resume my regular posting today.
I did that because I felt I was venting out for noone to hear, and in NO WAY did I anticipate the following:

But, as that was the case, I feel that I need to address everyone who expressed their support to me, and reveal that this inspired me and showed me that the community in its whole still has a lot of strenght.

On the other hand, there are still a lot of things worrying me, and I'll address that in this post.

Finally, I can hear you when you say the outcome was better than at my original post... but there's something you're not considering.

Let us start there...

My Rant Got the Views, My Cards Got Sunk: How the difference affects the Community

Many of you focus on the bottom line only... that is where things start to be wrong.

We as a community must make sure the value rises and the trash goes down. People who are solely thinking about the bottom line are part of the problem.

Don't take, take, take and expect people who give to keep supporting you - eventually they'll wake up.

I'm saying this because my original post, the post that ADDED the VALUE, was the one sunk!

The post with my rant rose to the top thanks to the support of an extremelly commited individual AND the community who chose to support me because they saw it was an unfair flag.

That is fine, and I'm over the moon with the outcome.

I never even dreamed of having a post like that.

BUT!

Half of the rewards I got on this post on the first post would make more sense... does that make, well, sense?

What I mean is that we can't wait for stuff to happen and compensate people later, we must take our heads out of the sand and pressure when stuff like this happens.

It's our community and malicious flagging is damaging it.
Which leads me to the next point.

Flagging Mechanism and Adjustments: Ideas, Ideas... but!

Gyrosean's Link

Throughout the endless waves of comments which I read one by one and replied appropriately, I found some ideas.

Some ideas were really engineous;
Some ideas were really impossible to apply;
Others were stupid.

I found an idea that while it wouldn't prevent situations like this from occuring, they could help to pinpoint cases of malicious flagging.

That idea was on a comment chat with @gyrosean and @giddyupngo and I pasted it above.

On the other hand, I also heard that flagging is something being discussed for a long time, and a veteran even popped out with more insight.

Of course, thinking about @dwinblood's words and how he at a later date said that the idea was discarded because it would be easy to circumvent, we can easilly imagine the guy who flagged my post just typing "..." or something... heck even "abuse" and walk away happilly.

I've been thinking about flagging for the whole day and I reached a conclusion.

I can't think of a solution in a day!

There are people around here thinking about that for much longer, and ideas come and go... stuff like dual reward pools which I think is a great addition are pitched, worked upon and more... but the truth is, a solution is hard - that much I can see.

The Flag on My Post Backfired: Among Hardship, Hope Ensues

Something I also have to mention is the fact that the flag backfired so... maybe the system works?
Heck it isn't perfect, but it works.

And here's the "but" again. If @berniesanders wouldn't have paid for the votes and kickstarted it all - it wouldn't have worked.

This brings us a very POWERFUL lesson:

The Community Works if it DOESN'T Stick its Head in the Sand.

In order for the community to work and to be able to regulate itself, the people who make it need to be invested, they need to participate and they need to use their "citizenship card".

They cannot be idle and wait for other people to deal with the problems, they must know when injustices happen and try to find a way to solve them.

Want to know how it only worked because a user didn't stick his head in the sand? Read this comment by my friend @underground:

So... now you see how only an ACT made the system work? Granted this was a big act, there are many cases in which smaller acts work just as well, because I doubt malicious flags are always this big.

But people turn their face away to even the smallest of them.

I'm a newbie, I didn't see many situations where my flag could be of use, but I contacted my fair share of people to try to show them they were wrong already.

Most of them didn't take their flags away of course, but one of them admitted he was mistaken and did it.

Apparently, he thought the content a blogger posted was copied just because @cheetah upvoted it (it was just the blogger transfering his content from elsewhere).

So, bottom line, think before you ignore.

In this community, we all have our stakes and the outcome of the community affects us all.

Ending this Chapter with a Thank You Note:

Ok, so now I have to thank everyone for their support. I am going to start posting my everyday content tomorrow but I don't want to close this Chapter without addressing everyone who took a bit of their time to share their kind words of support with me.
Overall, I want to thank @bernie-sanders for going to his own pockets in order to correct a wrong that was done to me and for having the guts to do it when nothign was guaranteed and without knowing me at all.
Finally, I want to thank everyone who supported my idea to make the MTG Cards and I want to tell you that I already started studying some more Steemians to add to the collection - However, I'm not rushing them so they may take a little bit to see the light of day, maybe a week or two.

For everyone that started following me because of this insane rollercoaster, I welcome you to my blog and want to express my gratitude for your help in building my little corner of the internet.

I focus on helping newbies and I promote Steemit, so if you guys ever have any doubts, you know where to find me - I usually reply to every single comment unless I miss it, if you think that was the case, tag me on it later.

Thank you again.
Chapter Closed for now.

Cheers!