RE: Where do we take STEEM from here?
You still didn't tell me how you want to prevent reward pool exploitation, spam and plagiarism without flags. A real investor (I mean investor, not short term profiteer) supports other users to attract them to the platform to increase the value of his investment. He doesn't try to extract as much money as possible as fast as possible.
Let assume a case, when a curator(you) upvote a post for curation and after that a huge free downvote come and post payout goes to zero (there are so many reasons of downvotes).
In "My STEEM Vision." I suggested the following:
"If it were up to me, ways and means would have to be found to contain 'flag wars' waged purely for personal motives. For example, a committee of respected users elected by the community and equipped with sufficient delegated STEEM power could be called in such cases and then decide whether the flags were justified or not."
You can also see this in steem price, after these downvotes war steem price never go upward side.
No, I think the STEEM price started declining after bid bots took over, because since then quality posts weren't rewarded anymore so that many people just started to spam big time.
I knew this feature that every steemians has 3 free downvotes daily. That should be removed.
No, like if you upvote, also if you downvote, your downvote mana is getting less. If it has reached zero, the next downvote costs upvote mana.
If you talk of three 'free' downvotes you could also talk of ten 'free' upvotes.
The flag will be OK, but it could not be free as currently given. It should be from 10 upvotes pool say daily upvote+downvote = 10 votes or say X value. If you want to upvote or downvote it is totally upto any steemians. There should be no difference. Upvote and downvote should have same mana not different. Whatever way they wants, use that way. Both are same. I am just telling that there should not different mana for each. Both should be same.
We are both on same thoughts but difference is only that you required different mana for downvotes & upvotes And my thoughts mana should not different for both. I never say that downvotes not required.
Hope you understand. I think no more discussion required on this topic. We both think same only difference in mana allocation.
Actually, I never wrote in my post to be in favour of what you call 'free' downvotes. It's you who assumed I would mean that. :)
But well, if you directly ask me, I tend to like the idea of what you call 'free' downvotes, because otherwise there just aren't enough flags to limit plagiarism and spam.
So it's true that we partly disagree.
Concerning flags for disagreement on opinion, I already described how I would try to curb them by using elected arbitration courts.
Apart from that I tend to agree with the idea of @glory7 that a reasoning should be necessary before flagging anybody.
Thanks.