It's an inappropriate use of the word. However, we need to focus our revulsion on getting this bad crap (reward pool abuse, flag wars, ...) eliminated form the Steemit platform.

An 8 year old girl was raped to blood by a worker in a mall in my city yesterday. While everyone was celebrating Women's Day in the same mall in Indore, India. This is such a shame!

I really hope someone influential takes up the cause to find a better way to describe this, thanks for putting this out there.

In my intro post I suggested the phrase `unfair distribution of rewards` which fits reasonably well, but whatever we use there's gotta be an alternative.

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I strongly agree with you. There can be a better choice of words. We are misusing the word without understanding its actual meaning. 

> Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent.

**Reward Pool Abuse** can be a better word phrase than calling it a Rape. Thanks for the heads up @phelimint. 

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I think the word rape in the context of "Reward Pool Rape" fits the second definition of the word:

"the wanton destruction or spoiling of a place or area:
"the rape of the Russian countryside"
synonyms: destruction · violation · ravaging · pillaging · plundering · desecration"

Sometimes words have more than one meaning. Gay can still mean "happy" too :).

THANK YOU! I saw some posts earlier today that were making me question the decency of Steemit. It is nice to see someone being thoughtful.

We should get someone like Facebook or YouTube to censor us so we can’t say non PC words. 

Oh wait...

I don't see anything bad with the reward pool rape, but let's say some people don't like it, what could be used, reward pool robbery or reward pool scamming?

Rape also means "any violation or abuse" in general. 
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/rape

However, I agree that it's better if people choose to use another term. How about "reward pool plunder"?

Fair enough, that's a good point

Absolutely agree. Its like nails down a blackboard; as it makes light of a really revolting  violation.
Could we go with plunder?

absolutely this serious issue  of the world

I don’t support the usage of the word “rape” either. To my mind, abuse is a very strong word too! But, its connotation is broader, thus, the risk of offending victims is smaller. 
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My friend I fully understand your point about the use of the word rape and I completely agree with you. What I don't understand, due to my newbie status, is what are "ongoing flag wars and witch hunts". Could you send me to a post that explain it to me ?

You're not that not-influential around here you know.  You could start using terms you feel are more appropriate/accurate for the situation and hopefully other people will start following :)

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It is a powerful frame, if you want a better one you first have to create a stronger frame.
What that means is : Rape sounds worse than plunder, by using the word plunder you make the frame weaker.
Maybe re-frame it as reward pool slaughter, stil packs kind of a punch, stil not a nice word.
Just an idea!!
About the whole flag war, I pretty much new to both social media and cryptocurency so I dont really have opinions on the mather.
Have a nice day!!

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When I first joined steemit 2 months ago, the first thing i saw a similar post about people abusing the system. I didn't get it at that time.

Rape is a curse in the society it has to eliminated fully from peoples mind. We should see the human body as a gift of god

I get it, although I don't believe it was ever intended to be taken that way.  I feel it's kind of calling something gay or retarded... It's more or less just an expression. I do agree though that there is probably a better way to express a discontent with this topic

How about Reward Pool Bleed?

Impossible

I agree that we should probably change the "rape" word to something a bit more mature. But that something should probably have the same effect and to be able to induce a reaction. I can't think of any word though and even if someone would find a good one it will still be hard for it to be adopted by all.