Make sure you downvote on every current post and comment by this idiot. There are at least 2 current posts.
His Rep is already zero and soon will be negative.
I've downvoted 100% on all my accounts.
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Make sure you downvote on every current post and comment by this idiot. There are at least 2 current posts.
His Rep is already zero and soon will be negative.
I've downvoted 100% on all my accounts.
I'm actually NOT in favor of downvoting @quackwatch
If you only support speech you agree with, you DON'T support free-speech.
Hive offers censorship resistance but also a form of stake-based crowd-sourced content moderation (upvoting and downvoting).
This Quack can speak freely on Hive and people that don't like the fact that he is attacking lots of great Hiveans can downvote him (or not depending on their preference).
His content will always be on the blockchain and accessible via a range of block explorers, but will be hidden on major front-ends.
This is the right balance between free speech and hate speech - decided by large numbers of intelligent humans with a financial stake in the Hive platform.
I'm not sure @quackwatch rises to the level of "hate speech".
If you only support speech you agree with, then you DON'T support free-speech.
Calling an Israeli Jew like me a Neo-Nazi IS hate speech.
I support the right of people to speak and have a platform to speak.
I also have a right to down-vote it.
Downvoting is not incompatible with free-speech.
It is an exercise of free-speech.
If you only support speech you agree with, then you DON'T support free-speech.
People have the right to express their opinions, even if those opinions are about you.
If you don't want to see their opinions, why not simply "MUTE" them?
Because this Quack is not just expressing opinions I disagree with, he is conducting defamatory, ad hominem attacks on a whole lot of good Hiveans.
If you express an opinion I disagree with I will not downvote.
If you engage in defamatory labelling and personal attacks on valuable members of Hive I will downvote.
For example, there are a small minority on Hive who occasionally engage in Holocaust denial (which I obviously and innately disagree with).
However if it is expressed as an opinion and they are open to it being debunked, I will not downvote, especially if the vast majority of their content is fine.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
But defamatory labelling of people is a personal attack, not an opinion.
Yes, and a personal attack is an ad hominem attack.
WHICH IS AN OPINION.
Just like saying "biden is an idiot" is an OPINION.
Just like saying "trump is an idiot" is an OPINION.
Just like saying "all christians are idiots" is an OPINION.
Just like saying "all muslims are idiots" is an OPINION.
The downvote belongs to the individual, I can downvote it for literally any reason I want, with as many friends of mine as I want.
#freedomofassociation may not be a right in your home country, but here in Canada I have the right to freedom of association.
Obviously you can downvote whatever you wish.
I don't agree with downvoting @quackwatch simply because of their OPINION.
I mean, really, @quackwatch thinks we're idiots and we think @quackwatch is an idiot.
I really don't see the difference.
Just believing someone is an idiot is NOT a good reason to downvote.
Are all christians idiots?
Are all muslims idiots?
Why would we expect to NOT be downvoted by (high-powered) accounts that disagree with us and yet still downvote accounts we disagree with?
It just doesn't seem very "principled".
WHY NOT SIMPLY "MUTE" PEOPLE YOU DON'T AGREE WITH?
My downvoting power is always nearly recharged, I save it strictly for stuff I am very against. Like communism and protecting groups of people who don't give back.
What's fundamentally "wrong" with "communism"?