RE: How Being Too Nice Hurts Steemit

I certainly understand the fear of engaging in vote wars, especially as a small stakeholder. Ideally I think that fear shouldn't stop people though. If we can't trust the rest of the community to defend small stakeholders who are abusively downvoted, then the network may not have a future anyway and finding that out sooner is better than later. As long as the downvotes are soundly defensible and the downvoter has enough followers to notice an abusive counterattack and raise the alarm I think enough of us here will stand up for each other. If that stops being true, the only real solution is to fork the network and remove some abusive stakeholders, but things would have to get pretty bad for that to be supported.

I appreciate the encouragement. I am working on it, but of course progress is slow.

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm already following @pawsdog (which is how I discovered you and this post). I met him in some of my counter-abuse efforts and saw your post when he resteemed it. That's also inspired me to use resteeming more, since it's a very effective way to accelerate the development of a healthy and densely linked social network.