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RE: The Politics of Negative Voting

in #politics8 years ago (edited)

That's harsh.

Not just the fact that you downvoted them with no proof, but you called his replies "meaningless" when they were simply trying to contribute something.

A lot of people here don't have command of the English language as well as you Dan and they just want to voice their approval or disapproval as simply as they can.

Your voting history is frankly, horrible.

I've watched you upvoted obvious plagiarism, downvote obvious real people who verified themselves, downvote public domain articles, downvote comments you felt were earning too much (the same thing berniesanders is getting heat for doing) and downvote things you said you didn't agree with (in this case I'm referring to my marketing post for Steem) thereby taking away people's ability to earn from others because your vote outweighed hundreds of others upvotes. You were the only downvote and I couldn't earn a dime. Then you later went around upvoting people posting even worse images than a girl in a bikini top. It makes no sense.

I'm fully aware you have the right to vote however you see fit, but at some point you need to realize that your voting power and the way you vote haphazardly at times seriously affects others in more ways than one. You financially cripple their ability to earn even if many others disagree with your stance and you make the person feel that their opinions are not welcome, because you are are not only one of the largest whales, but a Founder of the platform. And now you can seriously hurt someone's reputation. Who knows how many bots shadow-vote (is that the proper term?) your account.

I sincerely hope that you start taking a harder look at how you vote in the future, because your voting history up to this point is just downright shameful for someone in the position you are in. So much so that I joked last month that you should proxy your vote to others who have the time to do more research before voting.

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Well this is great and healthy @tuck-fheman. You've proved both yourself and @dantheman right. He said that negative voting should be clear, direct and transparent. You've called him out on what you see as a bad voting record. You've been rewarded over $1000 (at time of writing).

This is a perfect example of good, constructive healthy debate.

Wow, I would never expect such and honest criticism of whale by another whale. I think that I may be getting my hope back about the future of this community!!!
Nice one @tuck-fheman !

tucks not really a whale. i mean, i don't know the formal definition, but i doubt his vote is worth more than a couple bucks.

@sigmajin I don't know exact definitions. There seem to be many different definitions around (amounts).
For me anyone, who has got more than 15k Steem Power is a whale (Doplhin is past 1500 SP). Tuck has got almost 66k Steem Power. That's worth 320 BTC !!!!
I don't think that I have ever, personally, known someone who has had that amount of cash (if converted from btc)

I was going to follow dan then i read this and it cancelled out my wanting to follow him then i scrolled back up and realised dan is a smart guy and it cancelled out my wanting to follow you.

dan is a smart guy. but theres two parts to that. Being smart and being a guy. A guy whos trying to launch at least (it looks like) 2 startups and has a bunch of responsibilities, in addition to combing through the site.

With no wisdom of crowds to act as a check on his vote (because most of the "crowd" has an insignificant amount of voting power compared to him) and mitigate his mistakes (which are, as tuck notes, numerous and often absurd) everyone suffers.

Good call!

This is me right now after reading your comment.


;)

They both seem smart to be. People make mistakes and we can call each other out on them without completely discrediting them.

Get'em tiger!

Yes it is very sad that even in the world of cryptocurrency, greed is the motivation. I feel that there is enough bitcoin and steem dollars to share and everyone eat. As far as positive/negative voting, as we see, money gets the winning vote. I feel that it doesn't matter who votes for who, in our society, whoever has the most money wins unfortunately. Buying votes has been done for years by candidates, and I just don't see it changing now.

I think this deserves a reply from dantheman..;)

LOL

Kudos!

But I hope this doesn't start a Dan-bashing trend

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A couple shitty people downvoting a comment, from a new member that hasn't even been here 2 months yet, isn't really fair is it!? The politics here suck! It doesn't matter if you typing original content with positive meaning, you will still get Negative votes! If this keeps happening how are we going to get new people to adopt the steemit platform!?

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