I think the concept of downvotes is great. I've recieved many minor downvotes to regulate my extra high payouts, and I do understand it.
Unlike anywhere else, community decides or payouts here, and it is then necessary to have downvotes as a moderation tool. Downvoting does not mean censorship of any kind, all data stay on chain, and are always available. It only means people disagree with the rewards - and it's fine.
Some people downvote selfvoters, some people downvote these who don't participate in the community and milk the rewards only... But that's the right of these people.
I recently downvote the spambots that copypaste old content in a mass scale recently. If there were no downvotes, some of these accounts would succeed in scamming the community and earning few dollars for such stolen content.
100% your opinion - we are not just a social media platform controlled by one big corporation. Here the community decides.
I also love downvotes! May the law of the jungle prevail. :)
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I would rather call it a community consensus.
But if you call it the law of the jungle, then I’m fine with that, Tarzan.
It would be a community consensus, if not one single wale downvote would be able to void hundreds (even thousands in some cases) votes of less invested people.
(Also 'reputation' on HIVE has nothing to do with knowledge, expertise or real reputation. If you have the right friends, you can farm as much as you wish every singly day and become a 'reputation' leader.) :)
Some users just use downvotes to silence 'opponents' with different opinion, often by permantly flagging every single post of their victioms automatically without even reading them.
In my eyes that is nothing else than the law of the jungle (the strongest / the one with the biggest wallet).
Hive is an oligarchy where the biggest accounts stem from 2016 and fed their pockets by either early mining or bidbot use. The top witnesses are (more or less the same since these days). In a vivid democracy 'government' would change way more often.
These facts are the reason why I will never seriously invest into HIVE.