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ok got it. Do any of you feel the need to do this?
I think spam and referral links should be downvoted to keep this place clean. What's your opinion

Yes, thats the purpose. Also "borrowed" content without references...

You can't downvote comments? Also, a flag is meant for something else; not fsck'in downvoting. Oh, the stupidity.

how does a post get 'low ratings' then?

By not getting upvoted a lot I guess.

This is correct and you can read the community guidelines here...

https://steemit.com/steemit-howto/@cyrano.witness/about-downvoting

I think downvoting should be different from flagging inappropriate posts.
I am quite annoyed by people who for the sake of posting are putting up an image with some brief banal text.
This was a wasted click to see if there was some deep thoughts being shared by someone.
These are the posts that are not really flagging material but should earn a few down votes

I agree with you on that. Down voting can be used to indicate you think the content is not useful. Where as flagging should be for spam or abuse. The concern with down voting is that it could lead to censorship of opinions that people dont agree with. Need to find some way to make it clear that down voting is not disagreeing but rather indiciating low value to all parties.

Very well put.

I think also trolls should be downvoted!

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