RE: Negative Voting and Steem
I express my enthusiasm for the cause and my hope for the success of the experiment by alerting you to a very dangerous pitfall: overregulation.
How is this proposal "overregulation"? It's addressing a real problem: people (me included) seem to want a clean way to decrease a post's payout and right now, due to having on other way, they abuse the flag tool to achieve the goal. So it's an important functionality improvement which cannot be fixed on the interface level. For me, it has nothing to do with overregulation.
You manage perfectly to ignore the crowd who suggest that the interface is a major pain in the lower back because it still doesn't allow "circles", "tag subscriptions", "favorites", costumizable streem feeds, powerful filters and other simple tools to make curation more enjoyable than wading through tons of the created irrelevance.
What you call the interface is a privately owned website. If you want these tools and Steemit.com fails to deliver them, just go and build them on your own website similar to Steemit.
The "Flag" symbol itself is already a symbol of overregulation, a psychological weapon to discourage natural and organic intervention when the payouts are too high. Calling the downvote a "flag" and abuse it as an instrument for castigation is already a sign of fear.
While true, I am referring to it in its function as interface, not in is function as privately or otherwise owned website.
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