RE: A partial response to @dwinblood post on flagging and a suggestion, a formal apology to @pfunk and an update request for cheetah
your likelihood of getting a downvote is quite low
I have to disagree with you here. One of my posts got downvoted even though as far as know I did not break any of the rules mentioned in the Steemit Etiquette Guide 2.0. BTW, as they state in the guide:
these ARE guidelines not RULES.
I have no problem being corrected when I do something wrong. However I do have problem with the current downvote system, which immediately effects your rep and revenue.
But my biggest gripe is the use of bots to do this downvoting. One of the bots that downvoted me states that because of their downvote other upvoting bots will not work for me anymore. I have to better my life for some time (don't know how since they never told me what I did wrong), but than they expect me to transfer some Steem to them and they will investigate and MAYBE remove me from their blacklist.
This sounds like extortion to me, a much bigger problem if we allow this to continue.
I must say your suggestion to have a few selected powerusers that can downvote appeals to me. Better still would be to give everyone the same power to downvote. If enough people think a post breaks the rules than the community will take care of it.
Considering the amount of posts placed here daily most of the annoying posts will disappear after a few seconds anyway.
I fear if we don't react now Steem(it) will run the risc of having its reputation destroyed very rapidly.
bro slow down, your post probably got downvoted for another issue. If you would talk to steemcleaners or cheetah, something should be worked out. Although if its a vengeful downvote from a jealous user, all you have to do is report to the right authorities.
Steemit's reputation isnt going down the drain so soon. Its been too helpful for that to happen, although I do see the prevalence of shitposts becoming an issue soon.
If everyone in here had the same mind as us relating to the select few downvoting, then the problem of vengeful downvoting could become a thing of the past.
No worries, I don't hold grudges. I'm just seeing that someone created a bot which has a adverse effect on the Steemit experience.
With over 30 year experience in IT and one of the first adopters of Internet I know about the pitfalls en problems when creating something like Steemit. I just find it hard to get my input at the right people because of the decentralized setup.
And I think I know why my post got downvoted, most likely because of referral links in the post. Problem here is that nowhere in the TOS or the Etiquette guide is mentioned that that is not allowed.
It was not @steemcleaners or @cheetah I was talking about. I found out that SC are individuals, and even though they do great work there's still some room for improvement.
That is part of the problem, what are the right authorities? As far as I could find there is no body that can be contacted when you don't agree with an action from a user or bot.
And let us not be to easy about the reputation of a new network like Steemit. I have enough experience to get to the heart of the matter, a user without my technical en organisation background could be driven away because of something that could be easiliy resolve.
Enough stories like this IRL will send Steemit down the drain quickly. Wouldn't be the first site/solution to experience this.
I agree that some types of posts must be prevented/stopped, and I see bots appearing giving bogus replies to any post they see. For that reason I also understand the reasoning of @steemcleaners and @cheetah. However like I said, we're not out of the woods yet.
well, i came back here because i found two people you could potentially report to @pfunk and @predetor,though i dont think they would appreciate me dropping their names here, im already obsessed with one of them as it is.
Do you have T.P. for my bunghole? I would hate for my bungholio to get polio.