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RE: Understanding Steem's Economic Flaw, Its Effects on the Network, and How to Fix It.
Even among yourselves right now - people are taking a side on this comment thread - and upvoting the points they agree with.
This is just basic human psychology. It takes more energy to interface with those with different viewpoints. Also, humans function like quantum attractor fields that repel energetic stances incompatible with their own.
Votes are always used to reward those opinions that people agree with. Downvotes will be used the same way.
Dissenters are generally ostracized from communities for a variety of reasons. Of course, many times they are onto something quite substantial that the community-at-large is not ready for.
That is exactly my point.
Downvotes will be used for all kinds of petty mischeif because it is human nature.
It will make the platform awful. And even harder for a minnow to earn anything when he also has to deal with downvotes