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RE: Opinion Poll: Yes Keep Free Downvotes - No HF or change required
Upvotes should be enough of an incentive to produce quality but we need downvotes to stop abusive language, spam, trolling and harassment. I should also have the right to downvote or remove comments on my post.
I agree that downvoting for abuse of rewards is a grey area but hey if you want to act like that, go ahead.
Yeah it's quite obvious to both sides of this debate that downvote is needed to fight abuse.
The question here is more about giving 'free downvotes' which means downvotes that don't affect or reduce your ability to upvote.
So the grey area for abuse of rewards (which has been renamed from abuse to misuse by those in the flag community) remain incentivized for economic purposes. That's why we need 'free downvotes' to impact this. Without free downvotes, they are gaining for misuse while we are constantly paying to prevent misuse. It really allows things to get out of control and there was about a 1 or 2 year period when so much of the reward pool went to vote buyers and traders that steem looked like a mess to the outside observer.