the majority of people don't downvote
That's true. My comment wasn't clear. If the downvote power was lowered, I did say:
More people would then have to downvote in order negate instances of abusive/exploitative behavior.
Which won't happen. So lowering it will effectively disempower the community and those same problems will creep back up. Give an inch, they'll take a mile.
The biggest problems stem not from the downvotes themselves but the reactions to them. Things get blown way out of proportion sometimes.
Community members are being manipulated and eventually disempowered because of that. Have to sit on their hands; sit on the sidelines and watch as members get dragged through the mud, bullied, harassed, thinking if they step in they'll just become a target and treated the same way. Like OMFG there's a guy running around claiming to see demons, scrambling around trying to save everyone; because he got caught doing something stupid he even admits to, so people downvoted him, but he didn't like that.
Before him others were off running their little smear campaigns as well. Seems like those who hate the place and the people use downvotes as their weapon of choice (without pushing the actual button) to make everyone look bad by using scare tactics and playing mind games. Politicizing every case, pumping peoples heads full of nonsense; and that's what creates a WTP. Then they sit back and go, "See. That's what you get for downvoting."
It's ridiculous.
Everyone knows.
good lord.. what an egotistical piece of dirt
It's far worse than that and I'm not even trying to be insulting.
I know .. I've been watching it for a while. Going to be interesting with him taking his antics over to Blurt how they will deal with him
They're taking advantage of him.
is that a tongue in cheek statement or are they actually doing so?
Time will tell. It seems like some are, on the surface. Some of the marketing taking place is incredibly deceptive and damaging to the point of laws being broken, and it seems like they'll take what they can get now, rather than stepping in to stop it knowing full well down the road it could bite them in the butt, and maybe that's because they can distance themselves from the one putting their ass on the line. I don't claim to know what makes people tick. Often while looking in, I'm baffled. Some of my property was used without my consent. Taken out of context and weaponized; used as a tool to help create the illusion people on Hive are evil. I ask them to remove it from the marketing campaign and I'm met with insults every time. They don't seem to have a problem with the marketing campaign including snippets of a conversation I had joking about a piece of glassware with a friend being spun, taken out of context, then used as 'evidence' of evil. There's so much irrational behavior coming out of that place; for me it's really difficult to process.