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RE: The Price You Pay For Freedom, Is That Others Are Also Free
When 5-7 down votes can out weight 100-200 votes something is wrong. No worries if you don't fix that it just means your platform won't grow and you choose to chat with self.
Stop with your ideas and principles....!
....you'll get flagged expressing those kind of thoughts ...lol
(never mind highlighting the very real world repercussions of the platform will be seen as an extremely unattractive one - except to users who are power hungry sociopaths)
The 96% of people are a bigger market than the 4% sociopaths.
I fully support the bigger the stake, the bigger the influence , but punitive actions that go against the will of the majorities sentiments ( 4 downvotes V's 100 upvotes), is patently absurd.
How to maintain the rightful place of big stake holder , but not at cost to the little people, is the real question...
I did think.....I wonder if by making each users posts (on their own account), immune from flags and down votes.
i.e flagging and down votes on comments only..?
Just a thought...
And this is why I've always felt they should have no power. (ie. be purely cosmetic) I think the simple reality is flags don't actually work as intended. They do at the mechanical level, but not in a way that does what they were designed to do.
Someone posts some garbage on trending, people try to rally together to flag it and it's flies vs a bull. Easily overcome, and cheaply at that, with bidbots.
The ONLY cases where I see flags working as the user is intending is bullying, silencing, and whale wars, all things bad for the platform. Weighing that against actually thwarting the occasional spammer or plagiarist, and I think we'd be better off just not having them.
There's probably a more effective way to actually do what the design was for(have the crowd curate) What we have just doesn't work. It's not a rampant problem now, but if the platform grows, so will the amount of people that will abuse this.
Even, 4% sociopaths deserve a voice :)
Yeah, I tend to agree the DPOS system is not looking that attractive to me right now. Except for the time I've committed. I'm not a fan.
The DPOS system with so few with so MUCH is really a difficult problem to solve and it leaves most of us an ugly choice. Stay and watch while shaking our heads or leave.
Boo! :)
You forgot about the 'running around in little circles and looking really really mad..'
While it isn't MY platform, I hear your point. The point is made in the post. Those with the most stake have the most to win or lose ... and it is a choice only they can make.