Hello my dear Steemians,
Actually I was going to write a usual post about the beautiful nature with nice photography but in meantime I after reading the post of @frafiomatale I just could not concentrate on my post and decided to do this one.
@frafiomatale/when-downvote-becomes-an-abuse-quando-il-downvote-diventa-un-abuso-eng-ita
When i read this post it reminded me the time when I was in school and we had a girl who was new in our class and some of girls somehow did not like her, although there was nothing that she did. She was very cheerful, funny and communicative. But still there was something that other girls thought was not right.
I was not much aware what happened, until one day her mother asked our teacher to collect us and to let her speak, the girl did not attend the classes for some time. The mother said that she wanted to look into our eyes and to see who we are who made her girl to leave this class. She also told us that her daughter will start a different school.
Obviously, our teacher was also not aware what was happening so that day it was a day when we had to discuss the situation. Our girls presented the case like their are victims, also one of their arguments was that the girl did not want to pass to other girls and I remember one even cried.
That time I did not speak up, because I did not know much, but since then I have leant the following lessons:
- do not look away if you see that someone is unfairly punished
- do not keep silent, ask people to help
- you may sorry later but it is too late
What about Steemit and Steemians |
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Here we have small communities and most of the time we are on our own, but what if something happen and the community is not really feeling good and the users suffer from regular downvotes. Of course, often we say just ignore but what if that is happening regular and the fact of having Downvote makes us feel bad and guilty of done something wrong.
We will try to find what went wrong and try to do our best, post and communicate and engage and remain positive. That is what the Italian community does, but earlier or later there is time when we just need to share that with others and not pretend that everything is fine.
Can we all solve the problem?
I want to believe that yes, we can do that, we are a small platform with still relatively small number of users in compare to Instagram and Co. That is why we need to be strong and together, to show that we are united and support each other with:
- comments and good words
- the Steemit Team should lead that
- Steem watcher have to come to help too.
That is so simple and everyone can do that, to give a hand to someone who need a help.
