RE: "I Got Downvoted!?! It's Not Fair! Can You Help Me???"
No one downvotes because it's -ev everytime. However, little minnows who make 0 from curation could downvote but they don't because they are pussies and don't understand that they have freedom of speech on this platform.
Instead people would rather just pretend to be friendly, spam shit contents daily, and collect upvotes from dolphins/whales they charmed.
The big issue is the original design of the monetary distribution on STEEM. It's heavily exploitable (and exploited). Adding a downvote pool instead of properly adding a logic to reward downvotes in the same pool is yet another quick hack that will add code debt to the STEEM chain.
Anyway, I have no idea how you can still be motivated to talk about these subjects on STEEM. Community has been talking about that for years now, and no eco change is coming or planned for the upcoming future by steem it inc. Basically, we can talk how much as we want, gather as much support as we want, my hopes of ever seeing an eco change on STEEM again are pretty much abysmal.
If you have no hope, then I would agree talking about it is pointless.
I still have hope, so I keep talking about it.
I think a separate downvote pool is potentially a step in the right direction. As you can see from the comments here, many are emotionally disturbed by downvotes. If we financially incentivize that process (beyond the existing Incentivization of protecting the long-term value of the rewards pool) then it's possible so many new people would be harmed by bad actors who are not financially motivated to flag that user adoption would fall and eventually value would be destroyed that way as well. There is no perfect solution, just steps in the right direction.
Witnesses are talking about this stuff. Steemit is listening and we have a community repo as well. Improvements are being explored.
Either way, thanks for caring enough to leave a comment and build a tool that helps people flag bot content on trending.
Well, witnesses are talking, but it's a bit like the roman senate, it will end up never taking any decision. Witnesses hold different interests. Many witnesses are involved in the bidbot industry and will never want something like that to take place. And any decision by witness needs to have a large majority to pass.
I agree, it won’t be easy.