Dear @yabapmatt, as the top witness of my list you should be the most reliable person to ask something, so HF21 will make the horror of HF20?
As @knircky say to develop this social network we need to remove downvotes and improving reliability of the users to avoid scams like @magicdice....
Decentralization requires consensus mechanisms, and consensus mechanisms mixed with social media require some way to signal disapproval.
Downvotes are an extremely important part of establishing consensus about rewards. It is not possible to deal with plagiarism and spam without downvotes. It wouldn't even be possible to police tags, and every tag would be flooded with pornography (because all it takes is one upvote to make it worth tag flooding botnet spam pornography if there are no downvotes).
Normal social networks have entire departments and advanced algorithms keeping their networks free of spam, plagiarism, and pornography, and it still pops up. All we have is the downvote. Much hated, rarely used except by committed abuse fighters, but 100% mission critical.
Thank god that our witnesses actually understand the importance of downvotes!!
Any witness that publicly supports removal of downvotes from consensus algorithm loses my vote the second I become aware of it.
Dear @josephsavage, downvote is like to give for free guns to kill people...
If guns are in the hand of police (witness) it is sure their right use, in other hands downvote is like drugwars, where powerful gang threatening small users, so if this is the result i think it would be better regulate somehow it...
So your solution is to remove decentralized governance and transition Steem into a police state a la fakebook?
No, my solution is that witness are our governance and keep the situation as in all democracy, we have witness vote, so who is witness is having right to do it