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RE: Downvote Pool Deep Dive
Explain how this is "curation":
It does not give too many additional resources to users that will use/abuse all that we give them and frees up normal users that may not be downvoting to do so without financial penalty.
No, explain how expressing dislike is censorship. Go.
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A big enough down vote causes the post to be hidden. "Duh"
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Hidden is not censorship, especially when you can easily reveal it and it's the most intriguing item among the rest of the items, conspicuous since no other items have a BUTTON THAT SAYS 'REVEAL'. If you consider that censorship that's fine, no critical thinking, rational individual in my opinion will conclude that the item is censored when nothing is altered and anyone, I mean anyone, can very easily see the item and essentially it's more curiosity peaking than all other items by it's very "censorship".
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Enough targeted downvoting from big enough accounts would cause anyone to leave Steemit. How is that NOT censorship? Go:
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Not me. I welcome it and I'm happy to be the most interesting item, distinguished as "hidden", and completely understand the Streisand Effect which is exactly why I never whined even about the Flag Wars and flags I received. No ammount of booing and jeering is censorship. No ammount of thumbs down, negative reviews is censorship, 8t's actually the opposite, it's freedom of expression.
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p.s. I'm not the one downvoting you. I don't really downvote as I don't see the point in it. And honestly I would rather people could see your side of the conversation so it's actually quite unfortuante that all your comments have been downvoted in this way.
I'm not bothered, the people who have a sense of curiosity will seek out my comments first. I know why I got downvoted, I told @berniesanders to eat a dick twice, once on his own post and once on the steemit blog post about the Keychain being merged into condenser. The point is, ironically, that no one can censor you. There are numerous people who self censor so they don't tag @berniesanders, others who won't even dare to mention him, @berniesanders, but the fact remains that he isn't forcing them, and that censorship isn't someone booing or jeering at you, or someone rating you poorly, or making you comment hidden. I know, I have been censored by numerous people for speaking the truth in the face of their lies on Facebook, I was censored on there by Facebook as well before it was the cool status of rebels the world over. I have no delusion about what censorship is and despite being flagged by @berniesanders with his bots numerous of times, I will still defend his right to jeer and boo, even if I don't agree with it.
I think you should really consider what downvoting is. It's a form of punishment, and punishment is a very, if not the most potent form of negative behavior modification that exists. Yes encouragement and rewards benefit positive behavior, but no ammount of it will curb negative behavior. Downvoting is also the best, most effective way to make people who are primarily here for rewards, to rethink their approach to steem, especially if they are leeching, since such behavior will undermine everyone's rewards given enough time and enough leeching. So downvote, and even threaten to do so, the point of it should only be lost on people like me, who see rewards as a bonus but not a necessity since speaking the truth is my reward.
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