Well,  I am sorry you endure it, but keep steeming.  You have very relevant content I like to share, upvote and resteemed!

>If a post is hidden, then most people are not going to be attracted to even look at it. There are so many posts that the eye will just scan over it and ignore it in many cases

I don't actually know if this is true or not.   It's hard to say.   I don't know if a study is done on this.   I click REVEAL on quite a few things just to see what they were and if it was anything I was interested in.

That said... it is not something you can get rid of without opening the platform to potentially larget problems.

> if that weren't the case then why even bother having such a function of hiding the post in the first place?

If that function did not exist then we've seen abuse problems.   At one point we used to allow even the first image on the post if animated gif to animate in the feed showing all posts.   I distinctly remember a time before the hiding, and while that was possible of a very graphic animated blow job in the feed.

There are a number of younger people here, and it could be argued if they are here they are smart enough to find porn if they want.    Yet there are also other people that may be offended by it.    This could be true of extremely graphic violence or something like that too.

So this is why for example the NSFW tag can be used to auto hide such things.    They still do quite well.    Yet you do need an ability to create a "do you want to see this" type of gateway for some content.

Unfortunately there are not easy solutions.

You are going to encounter the occasional jerk that thinks in their arrogance that the topics they are not interested in should not be interesting to anyone.

All we can do is remove support from them.   Some people may even go so far as to flag them back, but that's not really my style.   I don't see going after those being negative by being negative as positive for the steem platform.   I've not seen it be effective in a single case that I can think of.   It kind of becomes war like.

So best you can do is let people that support you know what is going on and we'll find ways to counter jerks.

fyi, I just wrote a new post with suggestions on [how to improve Steemit's quality management process without inviting censorship](https://steemit.com/steemit/@ura-soul/stopping-downvote-censorship-on-steemit-suggestions-for-a-new-model-for-anti-spam-that-prevents-malicious-censorship).

Ikr? I went back and forth with a couple whales about it on a bandwidth post a few days ago. 'nobody has the power to do that' and I said ya they do! I made a post that was upvoted 4 or 5 times prior to a couple heavy hitters coming along and kicking it out of sight. Was total bs and I made sure they knew what the difference between censorship and not liking a post should be.

We need to form up as a community and when we find people that are down voting purely for disagreement we need to stop following them, stop supporting them, and as far as I'm concerned ostracize them.   We can also up vote posts they target to counter their actions.    Flagging them back just perpetuates the problem and becomes a revenge like thing that usually ends up war like and doesn't generally result in positive outcomes.

Right thanks @ura-soul. Not that I need to know. If I don’t like a post I just dont give it my attention everyone is entitled to their opinion. Maybe I would flag insenative stuff or wwrong but i’ve not come across any yet :)