What if the whales steal your Steemit post?
What if the top steam earners down vote your post that you worked very hard on then repost your same idea? Could this happen and would there be anyway to stop it? I had a post of mine that I worked hard on and the comments were all positive about it but someone immediately down voted it stifling some of my earnings. I don't think this is a big deal since this is still the early beta.
Of course it's possible. It would be very easy to prove that they plagiarised you though - everything that happens on Steem is permanently on public record. When your post disappears because it was downvoted, it's actually still our there and cannot be erased. Go to steemd.com and you can explore the permanent record yourself.
Every post is timestamped on the blockchain. You can downvote their post and write another blog post proving you posted the content first...which should get you more votes...and cause people to lost trust in the whale, which is not in the whale's long term interest.
It is possible that someone could attempt to do this, however if you can prove (which should be easy to do since all posts are stored on the blockchain) that someone posted the same content as you and tried to downvote you and posted it themselves and you posted a screencap and other members saw this it would have a negative impact for the person copying your post. If other influential people or a group of people see that a user took content without citing the original poster the karma will get back to them for sure.
Right they should implement some type of penalty system for sure. Thanks for your input
If this happened, it would be a case for #steemitabuse on slack. Most whales can be countered with a request there.
I really haven't noticed much down voting. I am not sure it is used that heavily other than with potentially offensive posts and such that could drastically limit the audience that can use steemit.
I saw one get down voted a couple of days ago that was basically full on animated gif porn. I would expect to see things like that down voted.
I don't really see much in the way of censorship here yet other than something obvious like that.
At this point that is kind of a non-issue. I think the flag for down voting is more used to REPORT possible problematic posts.
OH I did see another down voted yesterday. Someone blatantly stole the post of another steemit author copy and pasted it and reposted it themselves.
Yea that copying and pasting happens a lot but some I don't understand why, this post I made https://steemit.com/steemit/@bjones/why-it-pays-to-comment-helping-you-with-incentives was positive and I followed all the proper procedures but it got down voted in the first 5 min
Are you sure it was downvoted.... Those values change as the value of STEEM as a currency fluctuates. Depending upon when it happened the currency could have just been in a dip.
I wanted to give you an update.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@dwinblood/just-one-more-click-just-one-more-reply-just-one-more
That post of mine was above $6 a little while ago and I just saw it almost $1 lower.
This is not due to down votes. It is due to the changing value of the steem currency on the markets.
At least that seems the most likely. So if that is what you were reacting to. No one down voted you. My vote count is still 20 like it was when it was worth $1 more than it is now.
Whales have the greatest economic interest in protecting the integrity of the platform. If they game the system to a great degree, then they will successfully gain a lot of worthless Steem. Steem only have value because users make it so. Lose user confidence and Steem has no value at all. In short, whales are the most incentivized to protect and police the platform, not to abuse it.
How does one downvote anyways?
There's a flag in the upper right corner of each post.
thanks!
I was also worried about other people stealing posts? I hope that this does not happen. It will bring a negative feel to steemit.