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RE: All you have to do is UPVOTE CONTENT YOU THINK IS WORTHY
Yeah I said this months ago. Yet I do think many people are starting to agree on this. A lot of people have changed their mind. Some of them haven't.
Yep, i've changed my mind also
I change my mind on this all the time. I do see the reasoning behind downvotes too.
There are purposes where we cannot avoid down votes at the moment. Without them it'd be possible to game the system, plagiarism, spam, and abuse would also be a problem.
Those would be flagging issues. I mean downvotes as in "this post is clearly overvalued".
I disagree. Who decides what is overvalued? Is there consistency? etc.
Value as in the short term goal of the reward pool.
Or value as in long term goal the negative impacts of a down vote for such a reason might have on the platform and potentially significantly more than the meager amount that a person thought they were saving.
Also it is incredibly subjective...
If I like talking about crochet patterns, and so do 5 other people and we work to build up our steem power so we can encourage people to post more and better crochet pattern posts and we somehow manage to get it to $10, but you come along and say "Crochet patterns, who gives a shit about that, it's not worth $10" and you down vote it. If your power is significant enough you might completely take it to $0. Even if you don't you have just reduced all the efforts of those people.
Why not instead go find something that you DO like and up vote it instead. Let the reward pool itself adjust based upon actual interest, rather than letting people effectively decide the interest of other people does not matter.