#1 Question: how would this help steemit/steem grow?
Wouldn't more downvoting cause more drama and conflict on the platform making people want to leave or not join?
The majority of downvoting I've seen are bigger accounts downvoting smaller ones. That's why I see downvoting as more of a bullying tactic than what it was actually designed for with making sure whales can't rape the reward pool.
I think you should focus more on protecting the reward pool from rapes rather handing out free downvotes or WMDs as I would call them to everyone on the platform.
I highly doubt this helps steemit or steem grow, and very likely does the opposite.
Yup, sounds like busy work for idle programmers.
So you don't think that giving large stakeholders a few free downvotes they won't in turn police the network for overvalued crap content.. Which is exactly why this was proposed, since it makes no rational economic sense to waste Voting Mana on policing the network. It a as if people don't have the basic reading comprehension or are purposely trolling by asking things that are more or less spelled out in the post and all over the comments.
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If whales aren't already using 5 or 10% of their vp to combat this today than I doubt they'd give two shits about it with the free downvotes. Bidbots damage the platform probably more than anything else right now but you don't see whales or Steemit inc doing shit about them.
Well again, this is why this was proposed. Can you see that? You are saying that because they aren't acting against their best interest right now that won't change once they have a few free downvotes to hand out..
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Well if they are proposing it now and not doing anything currently to fix it I have to wonder if they really care about fixing it.
As if you bothered to consider the reason why it's suggested even before you shot it down as a bad suggestion.
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