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RE: "Down-Voting as Censorship" - A Series About Fixing Steemit - Part 2
This is a really good idea, certainly something needs to be done to solve the problem of people opening up 100's of accounts and then using them via a bot to flag random posts. The flags themselves are tiny, but for many it is the actual fact they received a flag upsets them as they feel it reflects on what they did in their post.
Long term I can see your point as well that opposing groups might start deciding to sensor content they do not agree with - that could certainly become a much bigger problem and is exactly where a flag approval panel as you suggest ensures flags are used fairly and justly.
@c0ff33a,
I was very curious to see what you thought of this proposal. I was going to DM you, "Get your ass over to my blog ..."
Curiously, in the past week or so, I received dozens of new Followers with very negative reputation scores ... including several with Negative Infinity (one wonders what you have to do to earn a negative infinity score). They've come in waves, with each wave Following at the same time (so, presumably, it's the same person with numerous accounts). Do you know anything of their intentions? I can't imagine that my paltry payouts engender a "curation trail" profit motive.
If anyone else has any thoughts, please chime in.
By The Way, @c0ff33a is beginning the long and laborious assent to a Witness status that actually matters ... Top 20. I've already enthusiastically voted for him and would encourage others to investigate his history and consider his elevation. If there is a person more dedicated to Steemit (I personally have speculated that there must be two of him due to his ubiquitous presence EVERYWHERE), I am unaware of their identity. He is a good and honorable man (with little understanding of mathematics, given the amount of time he spends helping people with $0.002 upvotes) ... and I am not one to use those words lightly.
Quill.