Looking at the downvotes on this post. If downvotes only applied when a person was of a high enough reputation NONE of the 65 (at the time I write this) downvotes on this post would apply. Ironic isn't it.
Reputation was created to stop spam bots. It'd be nice to see it applied to low reputation power down voters as well.
That would make some sense, yes - as would @logiczombie's idea to burn the money that goes to the reward pool after downvoting. The argument against doing what you are suggesting that I am aware of is that it would mean that those with higher reputation are totally untouchable by the rest of the community, which is not a good thing.
This is true. To negatively impact reputation you need to be downvoted by someone with a higher reputation. You can't easily buy your way into a high reputation but you could cultivate a high reputation over a long time and then become an authoritarian jerk and not be reachable by many people. However, we could potentially delegate power to someone with a higher reputation to address it if it became a big problem.
I've actually never seen this hypothetical event occur. Yet I have seen the one we have now that you call Proof of Wallet being tyrannical with their downvotes many times.
EDIT: I am aware that using multiple accounts can be gamed to bypass anything like this.
I am interested to see how things go with #vyb.
The global table of reputation is actually one of the report on the Hive Alive stats site that I am about to launch. The biggest downvoters are also constantly able to upvote themselves and circle jerk to boost their rep, so they mostly have some of the highest reps on the network. Ultimately, making it so that only the most reputed accounts can effect downvotes would mean that the top 20 witnesses, who receive stake constantly, would likely become de facto emperors even more than they are.
Good to know. I don't know that I've ever seen a report on that. If you do it throw a @dwinblood in a reply somewhere if you remember as I'd like to see it but I may miss it.
I'll try to remember, but I have 6 project running simultaneously atm and limited mindspace. lol.
I should make an announcement in the next couple of days.
If you forget no worries. If you remember great. If you forget hopefully I pay attention at the right moment and catch it. I have a bunch of projects as well and they are external to HIVE.
Understood, yes.. It's likely that the post will hit the top of trending until it is untrended!