"It is the attitude of entitlement that is the seed of unfairness." I have been thinking about this for days now. It is my firm belief that those who are firmly entitled are the ones who complain the most, while the ones who don't feel any entitlement whatsoever are the ones more likely to express genuine gratitude. The ones that enter life with an open attitude free of entitlement and with a work-horse mentality are generally those who gain the most in an environment of open transparency and free discussion.
I truly enjoyed this post of yours because it forced me to think of voting, reality and perception in a more nuanced way. My question is now, have you come to any solid conclusions about negative voting and will negative voting become part of the rules of the game soon?
I agree with some others that the result of negative downvoting will probably result in downvoting wars. People are extremely touchy, that's something that humans have not evolved out of. Just because something is a good idea for a certain number of Vulcanesque individuals who have grown out of personal vendettas and the like, does not mean that it's necessarily good for the masses who might be embroiled in their own hellish operations with other human beings.
You make a good point. Not every individual on Steemit is an INTJ personality type. In fact, that personality type is extremely rare. When trying to figure out how the general public will react to a new UX feature it is important in my opinion to focus on the personality types which by percentage are more popular in society.
It is also good to look at other similar projects, and the closest thing to is are gaming universes. I don't think we should look at election systems and corporate environments because if we are going to emulate that then we could end up creating a new hellish game which few people really want to play. Most people don't like politics, or corporate space, and won't like voting wars.
What's your deal, man? The subject of this post and related topics have been hot button issues around here for not only days but weeks. A lot of people have been thinking about them.