Marky, would you be in favor of a reduction of the 'free' downvote pool from 30%? I am thinking 10%. Because 30 was arbitrary, another lower number will give us perspective as a blockchain on downvotes. From there we can resume the conversation.
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It's 25% now and I think that is a good amount. It wasn't arbitrary, a lot of thought went into how much and we felt 10% wasn't enough. 98% of users don't even use them.
Hey, thank you for all that feedback, I know a lot of discussion went in, I said arbitrary because how could anyone really know what the effects would be.
I would should perhaps be more supportive of delegating my downvotes to scam and plagerism fighting. I think 98% of users don't support most of the downvotes that they see. (that much of the real crime fighting doesn't get seen, I am aware of).
And a lot of steem is going the way of obfuscation anyway, through tribes and smts...
There is only a tiny handful of people actually using downvotes to better the platform.
That's kind of my point. Are we sure these clear benefits are not being offset by negative consequences? (ie the scammers now have downvotes, etc)
Cops don’t get rid of guns because criminals have them as well.
I respectfully have to point out this difference: Guns always exist in that analogy. We code the guns into the chain here.
They are a balance, without them we would become Whaleshares and people will just make account preservation posts and milk rewards without any challenge.
Without downvotes we would have 1000 Haejins until we ultimately become worthless.