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RE: Unpopular Opinions, Casual Posting and Moving Forward.
Go look at my posts to see how much I am downvoted. A LOT.
I point that out so you know I have thought this through and take it seriously.
We should continue to allow downvotes, but also have an account or group of accounts that volunteer to review and heal downvotes. It will still be imperfect, but this is crypto... We have to solve our own problems not cry to authority to fix them.
I think part of the problem with downvotes are the established culture. Instead of ... Hey great post, I think it is over rewarded... People call each other names and attack.
Maybe we should work on the culture, not the tools.
Decentralization is very messy, but it's worth it. :-)
If we were to compare it to the all the states of the U.S. or from my place of birth, the states of Australia, it all leads to duplication and redundancies, but it preserves control at the lowest levels. It is a principle that encourages multiple solutions to a single problem.
Having said that, it is not the magic bullet to solve all things. It is a tool to be applied to a specific end. It carries with it a burden on the part of the individual to actually care about the freedoms of others, whether we agree with them or not. That is in short supply in our modern era. Distracted by pleasure, passion and the pursuit of personal happiness, we barely have the time to care about others we like, let alone the ones we don't like.
I think @jaki01 proposes that steemit inc give big delegation backup for this one particular account to counter this downvote that purely for an abusive act. Then have an open sort of "steem court justice" for the whole community to see all the review and heal downvotes application on a steemit blogpost. Not doing it in the discord only. Transparency..
I believe that the culture would change if the Downvote were not an option. We know that the Downvote is hardly ever used to determine the value of a post. It is purely retaliatory or abusive. I know we all love to hate Facebook, but they were very smart in understanding that the negative vote would be anti-social. And I believe it was a smart move even though many people insisted that they wanted the Thumbs Down button.
YouTube, on the other hand, decided to give it a go, but how many people can honestly say that they ever decided to not watch a video because they saw too many downvotes? I certainly never have.
I think the best culture is the culture of; if you don't like an Author, don't follow them. Proof-of-Brain is a failed concept. What was written about in the White Paper never happened. We have not produced Authors superior to any other site. So why not just focus on being a Proof-of-Social platform, where we incentivize socializing, and forming communities.
We should have a blocking feature that would mute accounts in both directions, so that if I am being abused by someone, I Block them in such a way that I do not see any of their posts or comments, and they do not see any of my posts or comments. Upvoting those who are being Downvoted abusively wastes time and resources.
What if you could Block those who are Downvoting you, or being rude, and they could longer see your posts or comments, wouldn't that be a great relief? Be honest, you'd be smashing that BLOCK button a lot lately!