Correct me if I am wrong but wouldnt your idea enable a form of censorship where the largest SteemPower holders can push down who ever they want?
Currently the largest SteemPower holders in a way control the naritive by incentivising a echo chamber like enviornment.
Largest SteemPower holder control the narrative as intended!
That's where Steem is expected to get it's value from.
With great power comes great responsibility though, and whales that don't behave themselves for the long benefit of the system get put to their place by other whales or groups.
It's obviously much easier to see upvotes as being the origin of new money than it is see downvotes as a more fair distribution of new money. So I can understand where you are coming from.
There would be no way for a "whale" or anyone for that matter to appropriate itself a larger % of the reward by downvoting everything else than it's post with a 25% premium.
Consider how much more of an unfair reward pool appropriation is done by collusion group (guilds & trails) upvoting each-others irregardless of the content. They're not sufficiently being put in check because of high cost of flagging.
In other words it's cheaper by at least 25% for everyone to create more bullshit content to upvote than it is to uncover BS self-upvoter group and flag them.
Agreed. Do we really want more Flag power for the whales?
Whales would still have proportionally the same flag power as anyone.
Understood and agreed. Are we sure we want flag weightings to increase when whales still have proportional flag power? That was my point.
Not clear to me that that is a good idea
I said similar in my comments here too.
That can already happen and it's been happening!! Increasing the downvote power is only going to make it worse. Having said that, we do need a solution to fight spam/troll/etc.
Sometime I feel like I'm the only one using my power to downvote. Do you have any complain about how I use it?
What do you mean exactly by making it worst ? How bad is the flagging to you ?