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RE: Conflict of Interests: Upvotes vs Flagging - is there a solution?
The "flag" is actually just a downvote incidentally. It has always been that way. It's just that people misunderstand it because of the talk of flagging spam etc.
I just think it would be better if people took time to understand that you get upvotes and downvotes. One adds money and the other takes away. There is no impugning of quality implicit in a downvote. In fact the very first option you see when you downvote someone is disagreement over rewards
The trending pages could do with a rework definitely.
Yea, people misunderstood the term, but it was not the point of my article :) My main point is that current rewarding and upvoting system works against new users. Particular authors are getting 1 hight vote from whales and occupy a place in trending section, that's why new authors stand no chance to get a better visibility. If we separate upvote from reward, it might solve a problem.