The thing is that you don't force them. You are voicing your opinion. Curation is both way. If this was a star system like amazon people would see almost anything less than 5 full stars as negative. I don't agree that you are Stealing because you don't have their rewards, and they are still being voted on. Essentially a vote for the other team is a negative for the home team because voting is a zero sum game, curating for stars would yield similar problems but we have to recognize what stealing is and what curation can look like.
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I spent my vote power in good faith, someone came along and de-valued my vote without my consent. It is theft from me, the upvoter.
hmmmm that makes a little more sense then it being theft from the poster.
The value of our vote is fluid until payout. You are implying that if I leave my waitress a $20 tip because I thought the service was good, you have a right to come take $10 of it because you thought the service was not that good? Now, if the markets tank and her $20 tip only buys her $10 worth of stuff tomorrow, that is not the same as taking part or all of my tip off the table.
It was a simple analogy... You WOULD take the tip off the table. Everyone in the restaurant got serviced equally, some of us were happy with it and some were not. Those who were happy left big tips, those who were not STOLE THE TIPS off the table. They could choose to NOT tip, but they take the tips off the table. And I just checked out your blog, you and I are pretty much on the same page about SO many things... I am done fighting with you over this. You can feel OK with taking my vote back, but I feel like you stole it when you do. Peace, out.
the technical stuff makes my head spin
After what I saw 2 days ago I'm not certain that I believe that curation works. I accidentally came upon a rant post against a person misusing steemit for his own gain (I try to avoid these rant posts). The first reply was the person being ranted against. You can guess that his reply was an extreme howl about how his posts and replies were being flagged and how it wasn't going to work, he would prevail. He then upvoted his reply which was flagged. Even with the flag from the poster who had a 60-something reputation he still had a value of a nearly $25 payout on that one reply. I checked his stats. A generous 3/4 of his upvotes were for himself. I didn't have the stomach to see who his 'friends' were.
There's a lot of posters here on steemit who feel pretty good when we see our posts hit $20.