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RE: Pull Request Submitted - Remove reputation protection from downvoted post hiding
There are pros and cons to the change. I am not dead set on it being made, but I lean more towards the pros outweighing the cons. Ultimately it will be up to Steemit, Inc. whether it is accepted or rejected.
A few questions:
- It seems like the problem you described is also there for accounts with reputation < 65. It is probably a bad word to use to describe it, but why should level 65 users be exempt from this?
- Can't it be countered by an auto-upvote bot? We've done this before when accounts like @asshole were randomly flagging tons of users.
Yes the problem is there for accounts less than 65 reputation which is good to catch users that are truly posting spam or comments that should be hidden. For users that are established in the community with over 65 reputation, no amount of downvotes should completely hide a comment because this user has proven themselves to our community a lot to get to 65. If that changes, repeated downvotes will eventually lower the reputation to below 65 and hide comments again.
We want to keep user protections available to authors contributing the most here especially when it comes to preventing abuse from bots. What we have in place with the 65 reputation limit for hiding posts is good because it provides that. There are almost no benefits to removing this protection while a huge annoyance is opened up to anyone over 65 being able to have comments hidden with even a dust downvote.
With the current system, having a downvote bot on someone over 65 is fairly pointless which is good because if someone has given enough here to earn a 65 reputation they should not be subject to having comments hidden by one dust bot autovote and expected to setup a bot or vote manually on their own comments to prevent this.
Authors with 65+ reputations are also more likely to be targeted than a user under 65 reputation simple due to popularity. As with me, more followers = more haters regardless of what I post. Should one account that has never posted or powered up any Steem be able to automatically hide all of your comments or mine? Absolutely not.
If this change goes through, one person would be able to automatically hide every author over 65's comments without having to buy any Steem power. That is a con that outweighs any pro for this change.
I see your concern and I don't disagree, but IMO users getting their accounts stolen through phishing is a bigger issue, even if it doesn't happen very often.