You said it all when you ended a paragraph with "They were hurting the platform in my opinion." That's what you have earned/bought/paid for the privilege to do. It would be nice to have a downvote for whales (even orcas) that wouldn't ruin a reputation, or a way to vote and restore reputation without the financial reward. For a reputation system to truly mean anything it can't be completely undone by a single person.
Now to look for yesterdays post, and the incident that caused it!
Agree.
Found and read through the "incident" with Dan. Well said man. Certainly got the shit stirred lol
There is a way to vote with less weight and I heard that it's coming to the interface too soon as right now it's only available through the clid...
It was implemented the other day. You should see the tuner giving you the ability to adjust your voting weight, although it may not be available on mobile view yet.
Ahhhh, I was not aware of that.
Wait, we have a tuner to adjust voting weight? where?
Hey Tuck. I was on my mobile when I commented above indeed but now on the PC (Win10+Chrome) and still don't see the tuner...
[Edit]: I just saw a comment on steemit.chat from @jesta that it's active only for accounts with 100M Vests or more...
That would explain why I'm not seeing it...yet.. :)
@pierce-the-veil: I agree @tuck-fheman there are some serious improvements to be made to the voting paramaters (not just upvoting crap, also whale downvoting power).
Being fond of rants myself, I did a post that went largely unnoticed titled: "Whale Ho, The Slippery Facebook Slope", whereby i tagged ned, dan, and a few others in regards to whale-upvoting standards.
Fell mostly on deaf ears faded out of the stream, except for one "apologist" who left a reasonable neutral comment.
Best of Luck to you, im following and look forward to further posts.