Downvoting doesn't rape the reward pool. Quite the opposite in fact. Downvoting trash is equivalent to upvote all the non-trash. The amount of printed STEEM remains the same everyday.
Your friend is using bid bots to promote his project that receives no organic support, my page proves it. Your judgement of the quality of his project is very subjective, and apparently your opinion is not followed by the majority of real users in this network.
Just like you upvote for visibility, my tool downvotes for visibility too. We want a clean trending without boosted content in it, no matter what it is. If a content has real value, it will go up from organic votes, not bots.
To be fair it is clearly going to be upvoting a lot of trash as well, unless you downvote all of the trash which is clearly impossible. That is one of the reasons why I have tended to support burning rather than just downvoting. There is a lot of trash right now.
Exactly. Thats why people need to be encouraged to use flags responsibly as a cleaning tool and not be worried.
I didn't say that downvoting rapes the reward pool.
I said that good projects should be boosted and not downvoted, yes, you're right, I am subjective, everyone is.
What if all bid bots are denied? Wouldn't that solve the problem better?
I think that's the real problem.
Trending page was similar before the popularity of the bots but with exchanges between upvotes.
I appreciate your initiative but I think we can solve the problem deeper. We - the members who care about Steemit.