Hi @berniesanders :) I am writing to you because I find myself very confused over the debates going on in the past couple of weeks, beginning with posts by @beanz and @klye and several others. After reading what they had to say along with all of the commentary underneath the only thing that seemed apparent was that a solution to low quality content being top trending posts on this site was needed. From what I could discern, downvoting such posts was the system devised as a form of checks and balances. It appeared to me that you yourself, as well as @smooth agree with this ideal based upon your doing that very thing. I myself have never downvoted a post because its difficult for me to do things I perceive as hurting someone. However after reading the posts put forth by @sigmajin, and after he kindly and patiently explained things to me that I find difficult to understand due to being extremely right-brained, it seemed to make sense and I felt I would be willing to put my emotions on the subject aside for the good of steemit. I very much want to see this site not just succeed but become as great as its potential is to be. Ever since I joined I have been a cheerleader for this site, advocating it to everyone in my scope. I tell them that this is a place that encourages critical thinking and unique ideas. My husband has invested in bitcoin for a long time and has been considering bringing that investment to steem, though he is still watching and waiting, particularly in light of some issues that appear in need of resolution.
It seems to me that @sigmajin is the only one who stepped forward to outline the problems in detail as well as the potential solution. I do not see where he is advocating for censorship, I would not support it if that were the case, I am wholly against censorship beyond what has already been done with the NSFW tags to protect younger audiences.
Reading that you will be counteracting anything he attempts to do...I guess I just want to know why? I certainly do not want to make enemies, so far all I have made on this site is friends such as @papa-pepper, @merej99, @ezzy, @therealpaul, in fact the list gets longer by the day they are not only great people but bring great value to the platform.
I would truly appreciate it if you would explain to me why @sigmajin's proposition is a bad idea, and what could be done instead? I see from this that you are voting on promoted posts, is the idea that people would be unlikely to spend money promoting poor substance? What does it mean to burn sbd? Thank you so much for your valuable time.
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Creating "guilds" to downvote content based on one persons opinion is bad. Those people using their downvotes based on their own opinions is a different matter altogether and I encourage that.
Voting on promoted posts causes competition to burn SBD in order to get into one of the top spots which may receive larger votes. Burning SBD removes it from distribution completely, reducing the overall supply.
That makes sense. But the guilds that upvote content, how does that work, do many people read and evaluate them? I just registered for streemian and I put myself on the fiction-trail, is that something you would recommend? I wish I had about fifty more hours in a day, haha! There's so many things on here that I want to read and upvote, not to mention comment on, I have lists and I can't quite keep up.
Okay, so removing sbd from distribution brings up the value of it, is that the idea?
I see steemit as a fantastic creative outlet, but I also want to support the community to the best of my ability. I rely on people such as yourself for guidance in such matters as I have been doing my utmost to understand everything that is involved, but it can be overwhelming.