CEO of Steemit - NED - Downvotes Prominent Whale - OfficialFuzzy - 3 Times in Two Days
I don't know about you, but when the CEO of Steemit, inc. starts downvoting prominent members of the platform, for whatever reason, we should all be concerned about the direction of Steemit.
For the last two days @ned has used his considerable weight to downvote content that @officialfuzzy created. Three times now, @ned has wiped out all rewards on Fuzzy's blog posts.
Take a look for yourselves, if you look at who voted on the posts, you will see a big fat negative next to NED's name. This is unreal!
I know that Fuzzy and Ned have history together, going back to before the actual inception of Steemit, but what Ned is doing is childish and very much hurts the community. All three posts that had their earnings cancelled, were contests, and Fuzzy pays out as much as he may earn on these. Who is being hurt when Ned negates the rewards? The Minnows that would normally be rewarded for participating in these contests.
For Ned to interact like this, in a public forum, is far below the title that he carries. If Ned has a problem with Fuzzy, he needs to pick a different venue and stop penalizing those that have a relationship with Fuzzy's account. Actions like this makes Steemit look like it's being run by a child. No quicker way to chase away new investment and subs.
There are some very prominent steemians that are ultra-pissed by what has transgressed here in the last two days. No one person, nor group of persons, has the fire power to duel it out with Ned, but all of us have the freedom to vote with our feet, our wallets and our eyeballs.
If @ned wants to turn steemit into amateur hour and go after individual steemians, that's his prerogative. It only belittles the steemit platform and makes us all into chumps for believing in the Malevolent King.
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This is precisely the problem with the current system. People who were involved in the creation of Steem and Steemit, or who joined early, have gained so much power they can do whatever they want.
This will be the death of Steem.
The only solution in my opinion is to make all downvotes have the same weight. I'm sure there are people that come up with numerous reasons why this is not a good idea, but the current situation requires swift action.
There should then be a method to completely block a user that has consistently been abusing the system.
Ideal, maybe not, but the way it works now prevents me from introducing others to stetemit.
I like that idea of everyone having same downvote weight. Only prob is sockpuppets.
With whaleshares we made it cost 3x the number of tokens to downvote as it costs to upvote. My belief is that it should cost much more to downvote someone than upvote because otherwise downvotes are seen as the first choice as opposed to the last
I don't really have the answer to the problem, looks like we're all struggling with this ;-)
Your solution does a little to ease the pain, but someone with enough power is still able to blow someone out of the water.
See what I did here, keeping to the nautical theme LOL
Actually my solution is whaleshares and it works magnificently. Sadly though its obvious now that I made MY community coin idea (that ned tried to act like was his) and ned prefers to mark me as they mark pigs for death.
Could you post a link to your idea, i'd love to read it.
I know the feeling. What would I be inviting people into, a family squabble?
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I don't know the background between those two, but perhaps @ned does not like the activity revolving around those posts. It seems a bit fishy to me, and perhaps @ned knows more about it. If he's against what they are doing, that would explain the down votes at least. If he believes what they are doing is harmful, he should ignore the posts? (Just playing Devil's Advocate)
Just a strange situation for the CEO to be jumping into. I was on whaleshares discord when @officialfuzzy was talking about it. Ned could contact fuzzy directly if he had a beef, rather than blindly flagging posts that would have paid out hundreds to the minnows.
I don't know all the particulars, but I'm a big proponent of steemit and I would hate to see the platform tank over petty stuff like this.
Interesting! I recently made available a tool to make downvotes more visible in response to my earlier thread about ideas to improve the downvote situation.
I'll check it out.
This is the exact type of flag abuse that needs to be dealt with in the code. I don't have the answers, and whatever it will be is surely not an easy fix, but something needs to be done or else this platform will be doomed to stagnation.
I think there needs to be a "flag committee", where a user can appeal malicious flag abuse. The committee's judges should consistently turn-over and the whole community should serve short tenures on the board.
Otherwise stagnation will occur.
I have been hearing that idea being tossed around, but I'm not sure about that. It may be preferable to what we have now, but I'm afraid it too will prove to be corruptible and the cycle will repeat itself yet again.
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Did he say anything? I think a down vote from the CEO requires an explanation. I have a good impression of fuzzy, he was the first whale to listen to my opinion.