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RE: Let's Make Downvoting Great Again!

in #downvoting7 years ago

I completely agree. I think flagging/ downvoting is an important part of insuring that good content continues to be produced and rewarded on Steemit. Steemit is a wonderful community, but I think we can all do our part ensuring that only positive content continues to be rewarded. However, I would hope that someone would not flag someone else's post unless there is something blatantly wrong with it (like with checkthisout). As long as we continue to put forth what we would like to see and the majority of people produce great content, then I think the platform will succeed! :) Thanks for your take!

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"Blatantly wrong" is too hard to judge without any objective standard. That's why we need a separation of flags and downvotes, so that you can flag only the truly abusive stuff that fulfills an objective criteria and downvote anything that you personally think is worth downvoting.

Overly rewarded is going to be a subjective call. Take the trending page for example. A lot of users may feel that the content there is not deserving of such high rewards.

I agree, subjectivity becomes difficult. I would like to think that it is pretty easy to tell between blatant cheating of the system like checkthisout, and people that are at least attempting to create content of value.

please look into my idea of adding a market for goods based on SBD transfer within Steemit