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RE: My SteemIt policy (responsibilities, guidelines, etiquette, abuse)

in #steemit7 years ago

Downvoting is a difficult Area. I understood you should only downvote plagiarism or abuse etc, not poor quality posts. There is plenty of stuff that would be down votes if you downvote poor quality but what is the incentive? There are no monetary rewards for downvote and as many of these types of posts have a 'fan club' you are opening yourself up to abuse. I've seen individuals reduced to negative reputation because they have posted negative comments in particular comment threads. It's just not worth it. If you expect the downvote feature to work it needs to be looked at.

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Yup people are scared (and greedy to lose out on curation rewards), but if more people start doing what's right, there will be less resistance/revenge since it will be pointless when 10's of thousands of people curate the content.

I also agree that the current implementation of flagging is terrible. You lose rewards, the author loses reputation and 1 whale can destroy someone. A lot of improvements are needed indeed!