I agree with everything you say. We should minimize and maximize and there use. What I mean by this is more people need to participate in downvotes and cool there jets when someone objects to the downvotes. We need the downvote wars to stops it doesn't look good on us as a platform. And more people need to put a reason why they downvote to zero on every post not just the first so the voter knows why that person has been downvoted, especially if they have a downvote trail following them. The way we decentralize (which is what I think you mean) the downvotes is by bring awareness to the downvote services that we have that are small. I'm not sure how many we have. I know there is the Helios burn and a few individuals presenting a service for it. But if we share the tools that we have created to fight spam and plagiarism I think more services will pop up. We need everyone to have the ability to identified spam and plagiarism. The tools should be available to everyone to use if they so choose. If we bring awareness to who is doing the downvoting and how they determined it should be downvoted, it might lead a more unifided front in downvoting and less downvote wars. Maybe even have a consensus on how much a low quality post is allowed to make instead of voting it to zero.
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It ought to be possible to have a tool that shows you where a downvoter left a comment previously rather than doing it every time.
I do still downvote, but it's really just for plagiarism and persistent spam. There's also a lot of sneaky self-voting going on that most won't see. Some people run scripts to find such behaviour.
People like HW try to stay anonymous as they get some nasty threats and I've had some too.
I haven't downvoted yet. Still learning what to look out for and I don't want to get downvoted for doing it to the wrong one. Hopefully someone can build a tool that could show when a downvoter commented last or at least an automated script that when they downvote a repeated offender, it posts a link to what they have done. But at least some indication to what they have done. Maybe we could have a comment that is specifically with the downvote button that has the ability to post last comment or any of your saved downvote drafts. Where the comment only has access to downvote comments. With a few defaults to help people out.
The data is generally out there, but someone has to have incentives to create the tools. I don't know if this is on the priorities for the DAPP teams.
Very true. I'm still trying to figure what is out there. I hope someone does at some point because the downvote backlash doesn't look good and leads to more people getting caught in the crossfire.