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RE: Simple Redesign on Downvote for More Positivity

in #steemit7 years ago

Your position doesn't appear to be coherent. You say it will actually enable more abuse

A downvoting system that drains more voting power than an equal upvote won't solve abusive downvoting as much as it will enable abuse and make countering it SIMPLY for visibility that much harder.

But then conclude that you're in support of it

Yeah, I'm in support but it's not enough.

Which is it?

The original intention of Steem is not actually against abuse as such you may be surprised to hear (I certainly was). From the whitepaper:

Eliminating “abuse” is not possible and shouldn’t be the goal. Even those who are attempting to “abuse” the system are still doing work. Any compensation they get for their successful attempts at abuse or collusion is at least as valuable for the purpose of distributing the currency as the make-work system employed by traditional Bitcoin mining or the collusive mining done via mining pools. All that is necessary is to ensure that abuse isn’t so rampant that it undermines the incentive to do real work in support of the community and its currency.

I suppose what this says is that people will try whatever can get away with, and that's fine as the coin should still be active, and thus potentially valuable. The problem is that this doesn't help us much with the social network.

I understand what you're saying about flagging being actual flagging, not downvoting. But this is simply not the case as it stands. If you advocate making flagging into a separate thing (I sounds like you do) I plain disagree. For me, behaviour is in the eyes of the beholder. We should support differences of opinion with tools but we already have that. I think improvement is all that's needed, not another system.

Let's see what happens with linear voting and then discuss the effect of so-called "bad" whale using their stake. It might be enough, especially coupled with what @clayop is suggesting here.

On rep, yes it should mean something on the blockchain. As has been pointed out plenty, this is a rather large oversight so far. But going as far as your "Hilter" solution, I'd oppose that.

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