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RE: Let's Make Downvoting Great Again!
I think it would be good to have downvotes and flags. Flags having a negative consequence to rep and downvotes not.
I think it would be good to have downvotes and flags. Flags having a negative consequence to rep and downvotes not.
Downvoting will continue to be tied to reputation (that is how the blockchain works, and there is not enough incentive to change it), but it really only has a net negative effect on someone's reputation if their post or comment gets voted below 0.00 payout.
There is talk about after communities are implemented, creating a new 'flag' feature at the UI level that can be used to get moderator attention. Moderators at that point would have the option to hide the post/comment, as well as downvote.
But the real question isn't that: what is reputation for? For me it just serves to give an indication on the number of SBD SPs gained by the user nothing else. What do you think of this reputation system?
It is well known and acknowledged by the dev team that the current reputation system is very limited. It really serves one main purpose (which it does fairly well) and that is to provide a mechanism to hide content from spammy or abusive users.
Yes, for small spamming accounts it works very well, but it also penalizes some new accounts that make beginner's mistakes :-( .
Regarding your article, I find the suggestion to create two separate reward pool very interesting. I think there will be other issues that we don't think about right now, but I would like to know more about your vision of this possibility. Can you tell me more about it?
https://steemit.com/downvoting/@thatanimesnob/an-easy-way-to-find-and-eradicate-self-voters-like-checkthisout-and-moses153
With two voting pools, users do not have to sacrifice curation rewards if they choose to downvote.
But that would decrease the hesitancy to downvote too. As it is, most users will pause before using more than 2 or 3 downvotes.
That is the intent. Currently users who fight abuse for the good of the platform are actually penalized financially.
No. Not unless they heavily self vote.
Their downvoting in JUST cases is positive for their real investment..THE STEEM that they have powered up.
If Downvoting is too easy....abuse will be worse because you can downvote everyone/anyone and not lose your Voting Power. The current system makes most people weigh the cost...and, in theory, only downvote to help protect their longterm investment.
It would also be nice if 70+ rep users like you make a topic every time they find a cheater, so more people will flag him (and the reporter gets some reward for his contribution).
https://steemit.com/downvoting/@thatanimesnob/an-easy-way-to-find-and-eradicate-self-voters-like-checkthisout-and-moses153