Yep, be careful @lukewearechange.
I lost all of my post rewards for creating that marketing meme and posting it here (among other social media sites) a few months ago. A Founder of Steem downvoted all of my rewards away, despite that marketing meme being viewed over 20,000 times in a matter of weeks on other social media sites and obviously catching some prominent peoples attention.
It caused quite the brouhaha back then from a certain vocal small percentage of Steemians. Despite the numerous upvotes versus one downvote a post receives, you can lose all of your rewards if that one downvote is from a large stakeholder, as @dollarvigilante has recently learned.
I have experienced this unfortunate occurrence of losing all rewards on a post on numerous occasions here for simply marketing Steem in a fashion with which the Founders did not agree, despite my efforts success in bringing in new users from other social media sites.
This is not a complaint against the platform, simply a warning that you need to be careful how you market Steemit, at least here on Steemit. Do what you like on other social media sites because you can't lose money there, nor can you make money there like you can on Steemit. ;)
Thanks for sharing this story! Very eye opening . I think big steak holders having this power is actually a good thing for helping to protect the platform from things that will undermine credibility.
"big steak holders"
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Lol
Very funny.
Typos are not my strong suit.
But with great power comes great responsibility.
What happens when someone has a differing political viewpoint?
I agree, with great power does come great responsibility. I think down voting content could be abused. I'm almost done reading the white paper and I don't see anything in the white paper that explains how to prevent down voting from being abused. I do wonder if that will become an issue over time.