You might be wondering what I plan to achieve with this post. Well, I actually decided to write this post to address the unhealthy and rivalry flagging that have been going on recently about ideal post length

In early days of Scorum, users interaction was top notch until we started losing that vibe. Now look at the Scorum telegram group, you will notice that it has become more of a dumping ground and there are currently less than 10 persons interacting or communicating, and if we should say the truth, something is definitely wrong.

The length of a post plays a very important factor in content writing and a post could be long or short depending on the kind of message the author passing across. While some posts require many words some only require few words, therefore, the need to expatiate so that your readers will get a clear picture of what you're talking about.

The length of a post and whether it's qualified as a unique content has been causing unhealthy rivalry among some users lately, and here are some questions we need to ask ourselves

  1. Should every author publish lengthy post on Scorum? 

Some authors at some point have been victimized as publishing low quality content due to their inability to convey their thoughts in a lengthy manner. The truth is that until we accept the fact that not everyone is gifted in writing voluminous posts, this rivalry flagging and e-brawls will continue to make this platform unbearable for many authors.

Only if people are allowed to pass their message across in the best way they can we will see more of originality but as long as we keep chastising authors for word count then will continue to see authors copying other people's content to their work just to make it look bulky in the eyes of critics

As long as a post is plagiarism free and it's written in a short and concise manner, I don't think there should be need for unnecessary dramas.

2. Is short post a low quality content?

It depends! During my undergraduate days, I noticed those students who used to fill up their answers booklets to the brim and still request for more during exams were not the high scorers. How a lecturer awards marks to his student boils down to his preference and so as that of Scorum boils down to reader's preference.

Low quality content has little to do with word count but more to do with the message itself, sourcing, spelling, punctuations and paragraphs; and as long as a post is engaging positively with the community, I think any potential flagger should attack the message rather than the quantity.

3. Should overly short posts with mouth-opening rewards be flagged down?

That word count is not a determinant of a great content does not mean that you should put up a post less than 50 words and then upvote it to $200+.. That's abuse! If you read a short post, your intuition should tell you whether the author is trying to rape the reward pool or the author is actually trying to pass a message across. If the latter is the case then flagging might be needed

In the case of Brandonk, I've read few of his posts and I know how he engages the community with his posts. Of course the word count might not be much as he's being accused but that doesn't mean his posts are meaningless. All the dramas surrounding Brandonk's blog is born out of enmity, and that's why we hear things like "hey man! what you post on Scorum looks bullshit to me so I'm flagging it".

4. Are those self proclaimed quality content experts on Scorum hypocrites?

Yes most of them are! I've seen a lot of hypocrites on this platform parading themselves as content experts but do you know what makes them hypocrites? Now let me tell you! Most of these self proclaimed quality experts go around en mass targeting those who they have some resentment towards and if you think I'm wrong, have you ever wondered why we hardly see their upvotes on many random posts on the platform like we see the upvotes of people like @pete, @fnemoto, @izge @bjempire, and many others I forgot to mention?

Do you know why you? Because their upvotes revolve around certain users and to me, their fight is more of superiority than sourcing for unique content. The reason why you see a random person buying some stakes and begin to go on flagging spree on posts that don't warrant flagging

In life, we all look but see differently. What A considers as a poor quality content might not be what B considers as poor quality content. It has more to do with individual's preference, and I really don't buy the idea some trolls feeling like their intellect higher that of others.

It's just like seeing a post that has already been upvoted by 15 persons and then someone comes around saying "your post looks bullshit to me and I'm flagging it down".. Does it mean that his intellect is more than those 15 persons that upvoted the post?.. Of course it's possible but we shouldn't always rub it on the faces of other curators that they are foolish to have upvoted that post.

The truth is, flagging is needed to curb abuse and indiscipline but we really need to be careful with the way we go about it, because this rivalry flagging has reduced users interaction on the platform. Remember this is a decentralized platform and we're more like an extended family.

We should know when to encourage people in the comment section rather than publicly chastising them. We should know when to use the flag option and not to oppress people. We should know how to resolve conflicts rather than add fire to it

This mentality of "hey! I have flagged your post because it looks bullshit to me and there's nothing you can do" needs to stop because it's causing problem lately.

Please let peace reign on Scorum and let's stop this rivalry flagging madness.

I don't know if this post makes sense to someone

Thank you for reading and have a nice day 😎

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