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RE: STEEM: The Disproportionate Power Balance with Downvotes
Balanced points raised in both content and comments, down-voting may have a place for people who constantly abuse if/when used wisely, this should not be allowed to be entered into the blockchain without good reason with a comment to the perpetrator.
Ad-hoc down voting should never be allowed this is just my opinion.
Yes... down voting is a really useful tool... however at the moment, only some accounts employ the vision and wisdom to employ it as a useful tool, rather than a sledgehammer for all occasions!
Last numbers on abusive downvoting were less than half a percentage of all downvotes.
The mountain is an anthill..
... yes, not a problem unless you are the unfortunate ant!
Anyway, although the out of context statistic is interesting... what is it based upon? Is it weighted by stake or number... the outgoing and incoming accounts... all these little details are a bit important. A 0.5% of all downvotes by itself is the sort of thing is most beloved of marketers and politicians!
It sounds good, but vague numbers is a great way of hiding detail.
The figure might be dated yes, from what I recall it was based on vests that downvoted total and then abusive downvoting was averaged based on the vests of the very few accounts that downvote abussively.
Thanks, I will see if I can find further details, or if anyone has published anything more recently. However, I do still hold that it is nigh on impossible for an account to defend against a committed downvoter (of significant stake, not the little bot ones..). The only way is to weather it out and hope that others find it worthwhile to help (out even notice...).
They could simply spam. How can any account continue to attack an ever growing spam fire, especially if they have the measly resource credits necessary to spam.
Also possible, but that at least doesn't detract from the rewards of the author.. and it can be reported to steemcleaners, who have the backing and reputation to dent the spammer. Plus, spamming that gets overwhelming would also attract the attention of larger accounts as it does slow the network down!
I spent a couple of hours yesterday going through those I followed over the past 3 years, start clearing out dead wood. Obtaining realistic figures is never how many it is quality, sometimes downvote with comment may go a long way to assisting some to adjust their thought on how to use the platform.