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- Downvotes are fundamentally wrong.
The purpose behind preventing inappropriately high payouts is understandable, but those who have used this dubious system (Bit Bots) on a large scale are now also large players on the Steem.
I think that the downvote behaviour of many steemians since HF21 has shown that it is especially used for revenge and unfounded purposes.
There are certainly other ways of keeping posts under control, which used Posts exploitively or for extremist opinion-forming.
The Free Downvotes are a power retention system for those who have made it this far to belong to the big ones.
Small accounts cannot use downvotes without the danger of completely destroying their own account.
One should find a positive solution where perhaps quality of the post is separately evaluated and thus a weighting of the monetary votes is made.
So, my suggestion would be to introduce 2 ways to vote, one to rate the quality (depending on the length of the text it should be usable only after a certain time) and one to present the monetary support.
If no evaluation of the quality is made (not read) the quality is weighted with the minimum and thus the payout is reduced.
Hi @siphon
Thank you for your comment. I'm a bit overwhelmed by the number of thoughtful responses to this post and I'm not able to catch up with adequate replies to each of them. To explain my view on the matter I thus need to refer to the replies which I made earlier in this thread.
Thank you!