The ability to downvote already creates a dystopia in which those who have the most money can censor those who don't. And now you want to make that easier?
Every single tiny change made to the blockchain and to the mechanics of Steemit send waves of uncertainty through the economy and in the long run is VERY bad for Steem. Stop tinkering. There's only TWO things Steemit Inc should be focusing on
MIRA
PRESS RELEASES
Do you guys even have a marketing director?
Hiring an actual economist might be a good idea too.
testing
@RT-international came, they were not able to make any news out of that extraordinary chance...
I'm not surprised at all.
So it's OK for those who have the most money to reward you by allocating reward shares to your countent and NOT OK to say that it should be less rewarded?
MIRA is already here.
Press releases are not done by blockchain developers so it shouldn't interfere :-)
Steem is censorship resistant. Allocating rewards has nothing to do with censorship.
(with except of some UI solution on some Steem frontends, but again - frontends)
You obviously were not around for the flag wars. You apparently do not know about @Hajin, @Bernesanders or @Grumpycat. You don't know about @LyndsayBowes or @fulltimegeek. Clearly no one cares if a whale gives a large upvote. But YES the story is different when a single individual can take away the votes of hundreds of people with a single click. Wake the fuck up moron.
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No.
It doesn't affect those votes.
Those votes are still there.
It affects reward shares that might or might not be allocated to a given content.
Upvotes are rewarded by curation rewards regardless whether they are "good" or "bad". Downvotes are not rewarded regardless whether they are "good" or "bad". It's unfair but it doesn't going to change. The difference is that we are going to remove (to a small extent) a part of costs to downvotes, so anti-abuse could work without additional cost attached.
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What exactly are you trying to achieve by calling me "moron"?
And NO, steemit is NOT censorship resistant:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/cryptoslate.com/steemit-censoring-users-immutable-blockchain-social-media/amp/
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Steem =/= Steemit
And how's that have anything to do with downvotes?
Steemit is the number one portal to Steem. How many witness nodes in the top 19 are under the control of the same developers who work for Steemit, or very close to them? Hmm?
Even Facebook removed their thumbs down.
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I don't care about Facebook's thumbs or any other finger. Clicking thumbs there rewards Mark Z. & Co. regardless whether it is up or down. It doesn't allocate parts of rewards pool that are partially yours.
I call you a moron because you can't see something that is clearly in front of you. Have I abused the system by initiating this conversation? Who is downvoting all the comments on this very thread??? not me! Explain why THIS got downvoted:
https://steemit.com/dtube/@lyndsaybowes/z5zm9j1h
Boy I sure got your goat. And your number.
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Downvoting is curation?????
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Soooooo... censorship is "free expression". Got it.
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Psychologically speaking, negative reinforcement is the least effective means of persuasion. If it were, murder would have ceased when death became the punishment.
People who boo and jeer simply have run out of words.
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the problem is not the opinion. The problem is the power law distribution giving the vote a weight. The vote now represents the stake the person voted holds. Not the intelligence, not logic but only the stake.
And why should the stake leverage your opinion? Why is that beneficial for exploring quality content and making social decisions within the DAO? It isn't. One person -one vote --> equal distribution of the social layer --> counteracting the clustering in the 21 Witness dPOS System = effective decentralisation.
This is exactly would those people don't get. Decentralization is a binary property (either you have a central authority or you dont). Distribution is vanilla. The redundancy comes from a combination of both properties.
when you have a decentralized dPOS System with 21 super-representatives but without equal distribution of power --> you end up with a consortium chain/ a concentrated piece of shit. But they don't get it :)
the inventor of Steem gets it, but what does he know?
Explain how this is "curation":
A big enough down vote causes the post to be hidden. "Duh"
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Enough targeted downvoting from big enough accounts would cause anyone to leave Steemit. How is that NOT censorship? Go:
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p.s. I'm not the one downvoting you. I don't really downvote as I don't see the point in it. And honestly I would rather people could see your side of the conversation so it's actually quite unfortuante that all your comments have been downvoted in this way.