doh! i must have gotten some mental wires crossed. I think i saw a couple posts about a release of the NSFW filter, and assumed you were posting them as official dev team announcements.
No problem :) I should probably start mentioning in those posts that I do not officially work for Steemit.
I'm not sure if Steemit will approve it, but I opened up a GitHub issue to make three changes:
- Rename "Flag" to back to "Downvote"
- Add an item to the list of acceptable downvoting reasons: "The payout is too high (subjective)"
- In the downvote popup, add "It is recommended that as a courtesy to the author of the post/comment that you are downvoting, you reply with a comment to let them know the reason you downvoted."
Wow awesome. That said, i think there is some degree of resistence to this.
I finally looked issue 215 and its interesting. Regarding what you brought up... the flag/downvote seperation issue... I don't really see why we need a flag at all. The downvote does everything we need it to do. Besides the fact that we elect to call it a flag, theres nothing about it thats different than a downvote would be.
sneak closed the issue on github, encouraging the debate and discussion to continue on Steemit.
The UI saying "flag" and the flag icon are problematic specifically for this reason I cited in the bugtracker discussion: