While I do support the idea, I don't know if down voting is the best solution. There is a big difference between a red fish trying to get some attention with using resteem services and spend a small amount of SBD to bid bots, then to people pumping hundreds of SBD to get their post to the trending or hot pages!
Don't you think that this could start a complete new flagging war? The downvote power we have been granted should be used in a different way in my opinion. It should be used to spam posts, copyright inflictions and so on!
So, yes I do support the idea but not 100%. I do think that it needs to be fine-tuned a little bit more! Just my 2 cents!
This is pretty much where I stand too. Flags should be for violation of the NAP. I do think it'd be great to have a seperate "Dislike" button that is like a 1% downvote. People can show disagreements without resorting to flagging wars.
The flagging wars are killing the steem blockchain! But I do feel that something has to change. Maybe my post are not good enough to get on the trending or hot pages, but at least I would like to have an equal chance!
We could turn the trending page around and let only the comments counts, but this would not solve the problem, cause people would be using bot who do also place comments.
I will admit that I do use bots sometimes to advertise a post, like the one I wrote about interaction on Steem, but for sure we plankton or Red Fishes have to do this to get some attention. And yes, I am very active on Steem. Trying to discover great authors and writing genuine comments.
Thx for the support!
Hiveminds should make things much better. It won't make things perfect. STEEM intitially had POW mining. That's just madness. Much of the current problems arise from that. The tokens were not distributed based on the contributions and they did not come at a large cost for the miners. Basically the equal opportunity part was distorted. Only a tiny fraction of the STEEM user were part of mining. By the time the rest of us came, POW was gone (as it should be) but the damage was done.
I never knew this! this explains why some of the whales are just raking in curation rewards without placing one post or comment!
To be fair self-voting and curation trails also suck, maybe they aren't the biggest current problems and I could find common ground with you there. But they are hardly a goal to aspire to. For example, curation trails are very wasteful in terms of blockchain usage (resulting in many, many additional vote transactions on the blockchain with little added value in the form of actual curation) when a very similar result could be accomplished by delegating to a successful curator and the curator sharing some of the curation rewards with delegators periodically (especially if curation rewards weren't tiny).
Doing this is better than to do nothing at all! So I will support the idea. 2 reasons for this. 1. It should be all about interaction and rewarding the people who do deserve the rewards. 2. I don't have any better solution!
At least you are trying to clean up some mess. Thanks for that.