Anyone who knows me knows I do not set out to upset anyone. I'm all about the truth and nothing but the truth.
I was lured to blurt to escape the censorship via downvoting on Hive as many others were.
I keep my ear to the ground and heard the rumblings of this 'mute button' yesterday but didn't think much of it.
It sounded like a useful tool for someone who gets attacked for their opinions.
I have used the mute function on facebook myself to protect myself from real threats. Everyone knows I can take the heat so it had to be bad for me to block someone.
So today I saw this post and took a little look see what all the fuss is about -
My view was that if someone is triggered by certain subjects then of course they have a perfect right to not engage or even see things they know will trigger them. This applies to the users of Blurt. Should it apply to devs and those in power though?
If those in power, those running this show, start muting anyone who criticizes the platform for whatever reason that is tyranny and fascism.
As I said I have never attacked any of those people on here, it's not my style at all so I was quite surprised to see THIS on the bottom of that post -
I follow @blurtbot and have never had any issue with him as far as I know so why am I disabled/muted by him? When have I ever personally attacked any of these people? Show me one instance of my attacking anyone in fact, anywhere online!
I'm not gonna cry about this I just want to put this out there so people know I have done nothing and do not deserve a super mute.
I'm not sure if this will affect my posting here or not, it'll be a wait and see game for now.
I for one do feel like I've been duped maybe. Lured into another trap maybe? Were we kettled, us Hive rejects? Is this 'censorship' by any other name? We'll see.
That will not affect your posting here for sure. Blurtbot is not an official account, or something related to development or blockchain, it's just a regular guy writing there and here and acting like a robot sometimes. I'm muting him as well because I don't like what he writes about Russia and Russians. And I'm tired of hearing that from so many. And as you see that doesn't affect my blogs or something. I even know, or guess who's the owner of that account, but I will keep quiet. Anyway, both accounts are muted for me and I don't want to see from them. I gave them chance again and again explaining things about that Russian citizens has nothing to do with the conflicts, but if I feel like talking to someone who keep pushing for his/her thing without trying to understand, what I can do about that. Tired from such attacks from people hating me just because I'm Russian or live in Russia.
He'hello there , how is it under your rock .
The narrative ( anti russian ) ( witch i am not, i am just anti government ) @blurtbot is pushing is the same as @megadrive was pushing some months ago ,.. sending killer drones to Ukrainian war criminals . Be aware who you hail and praise , just saying .
If lies and false narrative is spread always speak out , they might not hear you but others will do .
If you mute yourself and turn away from seeing the grass grow ,.. you will end up in a jungle one day .
Tough up i advice you , your a good and funny guy that just like me wants a peaceful world , and so i am not your enemy . ;-)
well as you know I am not a Russian hater at all and do not agree with anyone hassling you just because you are Russian. If it's for your sanity (and health) you have every right to block. I think I know too who the bot is and he hasn't blocked me on other profiles so its just weird.
hahaha WTF!
Yup, same here !!!.... with the caveat of 'spineless libtards' (but, in fairness, they hardly count as sentient beings,...)
We're in the minority - temporarily- but the cultural zeitgeist is changing...
Truth = reality.
Reality always wins.
It's not ideological, it's physics*.
_*libtards don't get this, which is why melting them is a good idea - they just don't know it..... ( a bit like getting a kid to eat his sprouts..)
His post 4 votes
mine 17 votes. It's looking good for truth. Think I might just throw a blurt block right back. Wonder if they like tasting their own medicine?
How does one 'supermute' anyway?? Where's the bloody button?
I just checked. LOL...I've been muted by him too. That's hilarious! Not like I supported him and his blog anyway or vice versa, but that relationship has just been solidified. I think this is great is some ways. I now know who doesn't like me, to the point where they mute me!....hahaha tells me where their head is at and I'll be sure to remember it. So really it's all good from my stand point.
Yup I'm not bothered just intrigued. It's when the big guns block and we cannot have our say about future changes that would bother me. I'm not too techie so tend to listen to others for how these things affect me or not.
I know @frot knee-jerked into powering down over it and THAT affects us all if people start running.
Even my buddy @tekraze has not blocked me. (I think we are still in working things out mode...haha) But I don't think you have much to worry about. If you look here https://blurtblock.herokuapp.com/offgridlife. Seems like @offgridlife has gone wild with the mute button along with his other accounts @blurtbot and I think even @instablurt he is in control of but I'm not sure of that one. My girlfriend and I along with you and like half the platform have been muted by him. I find it to just be very revealing of what is going on in his head, and take zero offense. I highly doubt @megadrive or @jacobkadiakan....@rycharde, @saboin......the names that really matter...will be following in that manner.
Hi, I think he is under alot of stress from all that has happened. I think we should be sensitive to that, muting so many people looks like panic muting and representative of deeper emotional turmoil rather than a few strategic mutes. @Blurtbot is not affiliated with Blurt Core, @instablurt is but the mutes werent discussed with the team, instablurt doesnt post anyway so not sure why was necessary to mute.
Thank you for communicating this in such a direct and clear way.
mega moron - "We had to mute frot on blurtofficial because he was literally swearing and cursing on a community address post, he even asked to be muted over it."
We had to mute frot on blurtofficial because he was literally swearing and cursing on a community address post, he even asked to be muted over it.
"We had to mute frot on blurtofficial because he was literally swearing and cursing on a community address post, he even asked to be muted over it."
Thanks, you are very manly...
Instablurt has me muted since my last conversation with offgridlife. The conversation was about one of HIS posts stating he wanted china to be nuked. All I did was questioning the ethics of that. And then the muting started.
I have given the instruction for all accounts to be unmuted from @instablurt
@offgridlife claims never to had said he wanted china to be nuked.
Well done. Smart move.
Ok. Cool beans.
Offgrid is lying or has forgotten. But ok
I don't care if someone is blocked or not, as I know, the whole thing
And we all know, how much shit people throw at @offgridlife that makes him mute everyone and I will just say, it is his right to mute people and live in peace. No one should be forced to watch the shit of people.
Helping one person or uncovering one scam doesn't give anyone license to insult or abuse people, it's just their psycho nature revealed
I would not bother to point out the names, as people are smart.
Also, you are lucky enough to be not in mute list, just for now/
You really are a peace maker. Thanks for your input.
Lol, i am not a peacemaker, i think they are a bunch of snowflakes who need to grow a set....
I was referring to tekraze. You are certainly no peace maker either though.... but instead you are 100% hilarious 99% of the time! Love your last monkey pox meme...lol Hope you choose to stay here, I really enjoy your commentary and sense of humor. You certainly make Blurt more fun and interesting, at least for me. :)
It's user based and not global, if a user don't want you to reply on his posts, he can mute you.
This does not mean, you will be blocked everywhere.
It's just ones ability to allow, who can interact with them.
Right so you can see exactly who doesn't want to talk to you. I see how that could be seen as passive aggressive and quite upsetting for people who are effectively being gagged. A complete block like on facebook would be more appropriate if people do not want to engage with certain people. That way they can't see each other at all and won't know they haven't been invited to the party if you see what I mean.
Posts are actually public and can not be hidden. So, that's why
Right. So if say the founders or devs all mute someone it will not affect their visibility to everyone else on their own posts? They just won't be able to talk publicly to the devs and founders on their public posts?
Yeah, because Dev's and team are humans as well, they can also mute someone as any other user will do.
But that does not mean a muted person will be blocked from blurt, its just from one's personal space.
I see that, so would it be ok for say, blurtofficial to mute anyone? General consensus would be no in that instant wouldn't it? This is the crux.
I like you !.....but @megadrivel doesn't !... apparently....
(he's already muted you and jungle for some inexplicable reason).....
Maybe he's doing a post that he doesn't want you to be able to respond to....he's a right bugger for some creative destruction and testing idiotic theories, is @megadrivel.....
https://blurt.blog/blurtnews/@lucylin/test-it-to-destruction-and-have-a-good-laugh-in-the-process
Also I should add to one of my statements, as we have no choice but to live with them (modern day liberals). I'm sure they feel the same way about us. I'm sure many refer to us as cold hearted, insensitive, horrible, evil conservatives! Or something of that nature. So it's a two way street, and I'm at the point personally to find middle ground with both sides as the alternative is basically war in one form or another in real life and here on Blurt. Blurt wars! hahaha
It's been proven that's been anything but good for the platform and as you know I'm already far too invested to just watch two sides destroy each other and the platform for what I consider petty BS in the grand scheme of things.
Also I should say...the whole mute button thing. I just see it as a life raft tossed out to the emotionally weak and sensitive....let them have it as far as I care. Anyone I have any real interest in socializing with on Blurt I'm sure will not be using the mute button anyway.
just replied to oyur other comment.
MY opinions on this are different to your own - so wildly different they aren't on the same planet - BUT, was willing to let it slide - until this debacle.
Now I see no wiggle room.
zero.
Everything I said has come true to date (as you know).
So hat logical reason is there to assume the rest of my two hypothesis, won't also ?....and thus act in way that they will manifest, unless external stimulus changes that outcome ?
(I have a 100% record on accurate predictions so far...)
Thanks bro! Everyone likes me! lol Unless you're a satanic POS on hive. lol I like you too, but I feel like you may want to accept that in today's world you're just gonna have to live along side the so called libtarded and make the best of it.
Either that, or spend your time in a state of semi-turmoil arguing against them directly like you do here on blurt, which is totally fine and in fact necessary to an extent, if that is what you choose to do, then I'm not going say not to; but on a personal level, it's not how I would spend my time...for me personally it would stress me out and frankly be detrimental to my health, but others like yourself may actually thrive on that energy. Hell if I know....lol
The entire world has been under immense psychological manipulation, more now than ever; and I don't think any of us have been able to escape it effects fully, maybe @junglegirl cause she grew up in the equivalent of the stone age...lol but she's a special case.
As far as @megadrive muting me and my girlfriend. Can you point me to where you found that information; cause I just commented on his last blog post with no problem what-so-ever.
I have not seen where I and my totally unconfrontational girlfriend have been muted by him.
But thanks for the heads up and wishing you the best and a peaceful blurt weekend!
Oh again, I reiterate. Who gives a fly-f if a few people mute you, you can still roam free on like 99% of the platform and have the ability to make your own post hit the trending page. So to me this whole mute issue, is not that big of deal.
I'm so chilled, I'm horizontal, matey - this is no (negative) stress to me in the slightest.
If you knew about my life, you'd understand why - this really is jack shit by comparison...trying having a shooter in yer face (twice), and knives at your throat- then disuses! lol...
NOOOOOOOooooooo - it's ME that's muted you!...lolol (and jungle), on the @megadrivel account.
You'll soon understand why - testing things to destruction and all that.
Reality is dish best served when it affects you !...lol
(But you can still upvote !...kinda very cool if you did, to be honest..).
I certainly have never had the gun and knife experience. I guess I'm a bit more passive when it doesn't effect me directly, but it actually has effected me directly. I've been muted by a good handful of people. But seriously, why do you care so much if a few people mute you, you can now see the playing field that more clearly. With the use of this site...https://blurtblock.herokuapp.com/
I find it fascinating, seeing who is muting who. Gives so much insight into the divide here on Blurt. It's kind of like turning the lights on and seeing what you are surrounded by. So for me I really have no problem with the mute button as I'm just going to use it as a further source of information to understand deeper where lines have been drawn.
I'm not going to mention names but there were a few people muting each other, that I was totally surprised to see. Very interesting stuff being revealed here if you look into who is using the mute button on who.
This has nothing to do with me, ergo the question is moot.
Answers are easy - but learning to ask the right questions is a skill that can take a lifetime to master.
You're making me miss American-Chineese fortune cookies! hahaha. If you are gonna make a stand on this issue, I'm not gonna try stop you. But for me...this issue is not that important, even if that means I'm full blown midwit. All good brother, hope the crusades go well.
if you ever feel the need to write a sentence to try and trigger me - the last 30% of this sentence is the bullseye ! lololololol
you DO seem to have issues with self identification as being a midwit - fascinating - never seen that before...I'll have to have a deeper dig onto your noggin' when I have more time...
( I also have to try and counter trigger you here, it's only polite...lol)
enjoy whats left of your sunday,matey..
He's an "foundation employee" hype man for hire currently working to hype up whatever is blurt related.
Also wants to nuke china or whatever his "feelings" are manipulatedinto thinking is the enemy. Just another pleb in my books.
Blurtbot is one of many personal accounts owned by offgridlife. It isn't an official account. I mentioned that to you recently on another thread that many of the accounts muting you belong to him.
Ah yes you did I knew someone had told me that.
These libtard clowns have really fucked up again...Blurt is screwed. Mute me now!
Most blogging platforms allow the author to moderate their comment sections. WordPress always has since i became familiar with them like 10 years ago. It's actually been a deviation from that and a sign of how few features social blockchain has offered that it hasn't been part of the blogging options.
So this new bullshit on Blurt is all cool then...have a butt sex logo!
I don't have a problem with it myself, no. I'm guessing most who will have an issue with it are those who enjoy going on others posts to talk shit and find themselves suddenly unable to do so as the person who blocked them grew tired of the repetitiveness of the attack that seems to have no apparent resolution.
I'll pass on a butt sex logo too. :/
Yepp buddy you are correct, they just lost their job of insulting and shitting people, actually their favorite pass time
Yes censorship is great, submit like a slave, and watch your platform go down the gurgler
I only see you censored by your thoughts making this platform down.
Only approved content will be allowed, just like on Hive. Pro injection posts only please...
how do you envision that happening? That is not free speech. That's not doing what it says on the tin!
JUST LIKE Steemit, and Hive, and Proof Of Brain...they decide what is allowed one way or another and ramp it up. In the end its fakebook. GAB IS NOT QUALITY CONTENT BUT they really do have anything goes to a degree that surprises me. And its growing like crazy. Crap for blogging though.
If it goes that way there'll be another gap in the market which will need filling....
or maybe Bastyon will fill those shoes? It's getting tedious moving constantly from one new hopeful place to another.
I also supported the feature as it was one's choice to do what he want to do with a particular user. It is better then few people deciding to ban / block a particular account for everyone on the platform with some risky message.
I could not get why someone muted you if there is no problem with you.
People mute for many reasons. Maybe the guy just don't agree with the shared information. And prefer to not see it at all. Who knows. What we can do about people who like to consume only what's aligned with the mass media ? Many people also don't like me supporting Russian citizens, the language and the culture. They can mute me if they don't like that from me. I will not care.
If he doesn't like to see my content why does he then unmute to go and upvote my content and comments? It is passive aggressive, control freak behavior if u ask me.
It might be different for standard users, but if this will be used by staff accounts then it is CLEAR:
CENSORSHIP CENZURA CENSURA LA CENSURE ЦЕНЗУРА CENSURA سنسرشپ ZENSUR ΛΟΓΟΚΡΙΣΙΑ সেন্সরশিপ সেন্সরশিপ சென்சார்ஷிப் ЦЕНЗУРА MAGISTERIUM सेंसरशिप
Yes this is the general worry
It's not a censorship, it's a users ability to block someone
If it will be used by the "staff" against other users, that is CENSORSHIP! If it's just a tool for the users, then it should be available only for the users. If the leading staff start using it then the entire idea of Blurt being free speech will be overturned.
I guess we'll see soon enough.
The mute option is in the hands of an individual user and the staff or the team can't influence who is muted or not.
The reason why users have this option is because the users want to feel safe from aggressive criticism or hatred.
Imagine I write a good well researched post then share the link with my family and they end up seeing a troll posting nude pics or abusing me for having a different opinion than theirs.
What should I do in such a case?
Should I just let it go or leave the platform for good?
You and I might have a thick skin and such abuse might not hurt us but Blurt already has around a hundred thousand users and more are joining. Do think they all will be same as us?
This little mute option gives sensitive users some peace of mind. They will at least be able to share their posts with others and not have to worry about a troll.
Some people might tell you that this mute feature is against free speech but is it really against it?
Individual users have the control and the team can't do anything.
And the staff will not mute any users unless there is a strong reason behind it.
Well, there are accounts as i told will not be muting everyone, but personal accounts, whether dev or founder should not be.
There are people attempting to attack us. If you think, we should allow them to attack us more, i don't think any other product company would do this
I understand that you want to protect Blurt, and I don't have or had any problem at all with anyone in here, but this is slowly turning into a centralized platform. Seeing that the power gets concentrated in the hands of only a few is going to keep other investors away.
I agree that power getting into the hands of only a few will turn things into centralisation.
I think Blurt will remain decentralised. It has always been a place for free speech and open to all communities and nationalities.
I know there are people here on Blurt from the middle East who share news updates from their troubled countries. They share information that otherwise wouldn't reach the masses.
As long as people like these can post there's decentralisation and Blurt is on the right path because there are powers in the world who want to silence these people.
With upgrade mute power is in hands of users only. This too at frontend level.
Anyone muted or not, can still interact freely with blockchain.
You are feeling like this because you think, a platform like restrictions works best,but with our experience it dont.
Blurt was targetted and many people talk bad about this, and funny thing is they are still on this platform and not leaving.
Muting functionality, just helps people to get their friends family to read their posts without being demotivated by those negative comments.
I hope you get it what i am saying.
Thanks
As I said, I have no problem with normal users being able to moderate their own comments section, it's only if the "leading staff" start muting people who don't agree with them on something, if that starts to happen that's what I call censorship.
Your concern is right, but if one goes over limit then only he will be muted.
But still he can contact blurtofficial regarding the issues, that one account is monitored by whole team.
Does it really matter if you can comment on @blurtbot's posts? I for one don't care if he mutes me or not.
Do I look bovvered? LOL just wondering why really. If it's who I think it is I think I know why ;-)
Hahaha...he muted like half the platform. That is fascinating, that is for sure.
Fascinating indeed it is.
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I came here looking for uncensored, so this really concerns me! Watching liiighthouse for their grand opening, supposed to be soon.
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We all came here for the 'uncensored' which was sold to us. If it doesn't do what it says on the tin people will be asking for their money back.
Won't be much, my wallet has gone down by about ten percent in the last month...but I didn't loose much, ROFLOL! I am still hopeful, censorship will kill any Blockchain; but so far we're in the clear here.
The liiighthouse.com site is s very close to launch, it looks interesting too.
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is that part of the Lighthouse paper? Might be worth a look for sure.
I've lost about 60% on my blurt.
They are at beta testing, it's a site that combines the equivalent of YouTube, Twitter, and a Blockchain; in one platform. It will be censor free, and they are being attacked pretty heavily already; so the biggies are concerned!
Blurt seems to be dropping value pretty heavily, but that's normal for a new Blockchain. Seems okay beyond that....
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Yes but it's not so new, 2 years old now, and it was going up but now it's going down.
New for me, and traffick is a good indicator of Blockchain health; so blurt is doing well, it will recover!
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There is no censorship, only mute and that also at frontend level.
Blockhain was free, is free and always will be free.
I hope you're right, censorship is anathema to a blockchain's survival! I haven't seen any here yet, but it is a fact on steemit these days. I haven't seen any on hive either, which is why hive is worth a lot more than steemit.
I'm hoping blurt will catch some value soon!
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On it ,.. clix is having a mental breakdown right now ,.. no mute function made by crappy coders will ever silence me , ill find ways , ... i will find a center in you ,. i will chew it up an leave ,..
It will be ugly do ,... see them all suicide over it . ;-)
Right now? Thats been going on for months. . .
Though he thinks now life is good:
But is it really?
If he muted you ,....
https://blurt.blog/names/@small1axe/rfqgxx
Follow the link ,.. open view the full content ,..
and give the guy some mental support . ;-)
OMG I just dove in, what a ride!! mental
.....I think it all started when I asked him a very simple 'yes' or 'no' question - one that that he couldn't answer - not without destroying his own position.
(from my observations and reactions).
He's been in 'spiral down' mode ever since, the poor bugger.
He's way too sensitive and emotionally immature to ever be on a grown up social media platform (imo)
'clixed' ....
Are you suffering from clixed?
Do you suffer from low self esteem?
Do you suffer from intellectual insecurity?
Do you have the need of approval ?
Do you suffer from victim mentality ?
If you answered 'yes' to any of the above, you might be in danger of suffering from 'clixed'.
Do you think you have the right temperament and emotional maturity to even be on social media ?
.....(oh, and if you find yourself even contemplating the above question - it means you don't !)
Been having discussions with clixmoney and didn't realise he was one of them until he backed off interviewing me for his blurtcast coz he was told I was 'too controversial'?? I wonder who told him this. He didn't say. And why is he taking advise on who he can interview?
Wonder if he's seen my TNT interview yet?
And who do you think @blurtbot belongs to ?
https://blurt.blog/drones/@blurtbot/drones-and-robots-destroying-the-russian-army
I say no more ... ;-)
well if it's who you're hinting at then I'm wrong bout who it is. I think?
Censorship means your content is being hidden from others, but with mute only comments are disabled as requested by a person
Muting is not censorship.
If no one could see your content , that would count as censorship.
Also as i told earlier staff accounts like blurtofficial wil mute only if team agree and personal accounts of dev are free to use mute when they require.
For example, some people posted very low comments on my posts, that was insulting. I haven't yet blocked them, but i can.
Mute as an option being there does not mean everyone will use, it's there to help someone stay protected from someone's abuse.
So, please don't give false ideas to people. If you have a right to uncover truth, one has a right to mute someone. Noone should be forced to keep seeing shit and insulting posts
"So, please don't give false ideas to people."
I don't know what you mean with this remark? I've had no ideas regarding this. I'm just commenting on the situation and chewing it over. I also have zero influence as far as I know.