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RE: LOOK AT MY BLOG!! Steemit, seriously, how can you claim to be any different than Facebook, and the other CENSORSHIP sites?
Is stealing considered "free-speech"?
In a free-market you can give to whomever you like, but you cannot take from whomever you dislike.
Is it considered stealing to vote? Every single vote takes away from every single other vote, in effect, every one is Stealing. Free Market isn't an end all be all and what you seem to think is that there's nothing wrong with calling it stealing and still participating while ostensibly talking about free market principalities but the free market has absolutely no patience for fraud and deceit alike, but then again you don't seem to think you're being deceitful, but imperatively you're stuck so it's moot, you either stop participating in what you consider stealing or you start being honest as to what you're talking about.
I earn my share of the reward pool by investing in steem-power.
This is not stealing.
I distribute my earned share with my upvotes.
Downvoting steals rewards from people who have earned them from others.
It's the real-world equivalent of scooping money out of a bartender's tip-jar.
Not at all. In the real world the money you tip with doesn't recharge every day. You think that a post only earns positive curation, and people should not have a right to vote against other's votes.
In the real-world you can earn interest based on the amount of money you "invest" in your savings account (like steem-power).
Spending money decreases the value of everyone's dollars (by increasing liquidity, contributing to inflation).
If you could cancel other people's purchases, that action would increase the spending power of everyone else's dollars (by decreasing liquidity and contributing to deflation).
By canceling other people's purchases, you'd be "protecting the value of the 'community' money-pool".
Would you like to live in a world where other people could cancel your purchases if they disagreed with your choices?
If you threw money into a street musician's hat, and then someone kicked over the hat and said "oh, they purchased their spot on the sidewalk, so they don't deserve any tips, and they're not really making a sufficient 'effort' and they just keep playing slight variations of the same song over and over" do you think that would be "fair"?
I'm just trying to understand the moral-theory behind downvoting.
It makes sense to me to downvote CRIMINAL behavior, but all of this downvoting for differences of opinion seems insane (and logically incoherent).
And how does someone "get out of the penalty box"? There doesn't seem to be any interest in giving these "offenders" any sort of "fair-hearing" or providing them some sort of "path-to-redemption".
Ok, I've learned-my-lesson, please tell me what I can do to fix my (-11) rep.