Downvotes are required so the community can police itself, it is the abusive flags that harm the community.
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Downvotes are required so the community can police itself, it is the abusive flags that harm the community.
If down votes had equal power, regardless of SP, this would be valid. However they don't. So the community can't police itself. The people who are willing/able to spend money get to police the poor.
So the community becomes lopsided. As with all anarchy, the strong bully the weak.
If all votes were created equal, this would truly be a working system... However then people wouldn't invest tons of money in the coin. Make no mistake, steemit is about making money at is core... With then"invested" making the "rules" about who gets to make that money how.
As for it being worse if nothing was done, all that down vote power used to clean up spambots and beggers and to reward good content over bad would have benefitted this site and the community 100x more than trying to flush out one person gaming the rewards system.
But it wouldn't have given nearly the power trip rush this little drama play has I suppose.
Ok, but who decides what abuse is and what is not. As long as it is not criminal according to the laws of the respective country, it is rather based on personal taste or our own worldviews. Which in turn can lead to abuse.
No one really can decide, it's very subjective. The original ideal is the community decides. The problem is when the community takes action, the offenders retaliate.
Each person gets to decide. If you think someone is being punished unfairly, go upvote them. If you think someone is being upvoted unfairly, go downvote them. It generally works pretty good and there are only problems when people get mad and start using downvotes as weapons. The community responds negatively to this and it works itself out. There are some ideas floating around that might make this problem easier to handle but at the end of the day each person gets to help decide how much value will go to each post from the reward pool. Upvotes and downvotes are necessary for this to work properly
Berniesanders and markymark decide. They are looking to run this shitshow.
When a very bias crowd steps into the platform under the impression that "We can just give Haejin 100% of the rewards pool. To hell with everyone else and the platform" where you all are in agreeance that steemit is no longer a platform of creativity but a platform of crypto analysis you should not be at all surprised that the crowd that's been sharing wealth between a large variety of content creators are going to stand up and do something about it.
Just because it's decentralized, doesn't mean you were going to be able to ninja loot the rewards and get away with it like this is some kind of video game. The community as a whole, decides. Not you, not just haejin followers. You and haejin don't make up the community. The community does. You guys have become a part of the community, but you certainly don't make up the whole community. Why this even needs to be explained is beyond me. Flags will happen, haejin followers will flag him, and he will forever be the highest paid TA on the planet thanks to steemit. Or will he? Can you guys counter every user? because eventually when everyone starts to notice the effect they will start to seek solutions. Like with any business, someone's gonna get a pay cut.