As I said before, the ability to downvote a post is a MAJOR design flaw in Steem. This power NEEDS TO BE REMOVED OR STEEMIT WILL DIE. This is a lot worse than flame wars, folks. Is anyone at steemit listening? I almost left myself because of some self appointed asshole.
if you remove downvoting you eliminate the ability to remove rewards from spam and plagiarism.
I'm more in favor of having two separate pools, to remove the financial disincentive to downvoting. Give everyone their daily pool of voting power, and thier daily pool of downvoting power. that way people who spend a lot of vp downvoting won't have an easy excuse to make up for lost rewards by selfvoting bullshit
Agreed.
unfortunately, you can't have it both ways. Maybe a downvote should require 5 people or something like that. That way you could still get rid of spam but not allow one person to selfishly downvote people for no good reason.
So it wastes 5 peoples vp to counter one person's vote? That doesn't sound like it will get rid of spam, that sounds like it will take 5x the voting power to fight spam.
Most of the times I don't agree with these crusades. One person's spam may not be another's Steemit needs to be open and welcoming, not like a bunch of condo Nazis.
#pedolife
@moeknows said something similar a few days ago. I've forgotten how he put it exactly. wish steeminc could do this.
I really share his pain. It's really painful. I think it happens to virtually everyone
So we can all post whatever crap we want no consequences to it. So along with the no down votes then how would the NSFW images be taken care of that ignore that rule, or all the blatant hate speech, or threats of violence. No the down vote needs to stay, and whether people like @berniesanders or @grumpycat, or we will see what @madpuppy does, they are needed. With whales and some witnesses and other large account holders becoming so called "victims" they want to do something now? I am sorry, but their attempts are plainly pitiful. If the large account holders, and the witnesses were so damned concerned about this they would have aided @berniesanders against that haejin person and his benefactor. So before making a statement about the "MAJOR design flaw in Steem" and saying it needs to be removed give your real reason for it's removal, give a solution to what you perceive as a problem, or try to do something about it.
@drakos, @grumpycat,@berniesanders, and a few others are at least trying to do something about what they perceive as the problem. What are you doing about the problem. I can tell you what I am doing about it. I actually think that both sides are doing what they think is best, I think that if steem inc, or the owners of steemit felt that something needed to be done they would. I think that on April 15th everyone, every single individual should make a @grumpycat post and then make nine or twenty or 100 comments to their own post and give themselves 100% upvotes. Break the bank on American Tax day deadline. Then, maybe steemit owners will see that, "uhh captain we have a problem".
But I am sure the reason you don't like the down vote is because you like looking at trash for free.
Look, a great many people here are anarchists, including me. As such, we don't believe in any of your stupid crusades. People should be free to do as they please and if you don't like it go back to Facebook or Reddit. You have me very pissed off and now I plan to do something about people like you. Some of the whales have the same view. If you don't like "hate speech," etc. go the fuck back where you came from.