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RE: Reddit is having a melt down at the moment regarding /r/The_Donald
The problem is that the voting system and such here seems to be modeled after Reddit. So what is happening there can easily happen here as well.
Actually, this place has no moderators. Steemit is an interesting beast to say the least, while censorship wont be an issue. High energy echo chambers like The_Donald are likely to churn out insane profits...
It can be effectively censored. Here it is simply different. The information is still accessible on the block chain but down vote brigades can insure only the things they like receive any kind of payout. Effectively it will be visible, but still be a highly visible form of censorship that has a monetary impact on people. I suspect due to that monetary impact the rage people might get from it could be amplified.
hate/rage flags?
Yep. I've been recommending no downvote flag within a month of joining steemit. I believe we need a way to flag spam, plagiarism, and abuse. There is not much point beyond that though. The only compelling reason I've seen given is the fact that there is X amount of new steem per day that is divided across posts based upon votes. So downvotes reduces the allocation. Yet it also feels like censorship, it also causes hate and rage. I still would like to see the down vote go away.