RE: Steemit flagging to reduce rewards, it's GREAT
I can see your perspective here... another perfectly valid voice in this debate.
It all makes me sit back and consider the possibility that there is room for change to just a strict "upvote/downvote" with the attendant sliding scale from 1-100% in either direction... and "flagging" being reserved purely for clickbait, system abuse, plagiarism, copy-and-paste, duplicate content from the web and so forth. The other day, I came across a post that was nothing but a long string of keyword spam... that should have NO PLACE here.
Sure @krnel is a great blogger (I happen to follow him) but that doesn't mean his style of content is the only thing that has validity. Your videos are "quality content" of a different format. But it's also original content. You put effort into it. It's not "here are 47 memes copied from the web into 47 posts, please upvote and follow me" posting. I despise that kind of stuff.
dude I put effort into my comments too shouldn't I get rewarded too, for spending so much time going around and throwing shit out piled up from some whale. Sure I agree with the above video too. It' a tough subject here is the "original" quoting it since it's not the first time it's been done, this idea goes way back
https://steemit.com/steem/@snowflake/guardian-of-the-steem-universe-a-different-take-on-the-role-of-whales-within-steem-ecosystem
So please guys take some time and read. Go off your trails and into other peoples activity, sure there is great quality posts around the TRAIL is doing a great job finding some shadowspub is another notable curator. Many others. And what do we get apart from the pat on the back every 20 posts or so. Well more shit since it gets perpetuated. I'm really past my bed time so take my comments with a grain of salt plus i'm fresh off the bat with berni and krnel :D but please do your curation the whales should be the most active and not in causing controversies but rather being smart and actually helping as I've said NUKES AREN'T YELPING :)
https://steemit.com/work/@j3dy/re-berniesanders-re-krnel-hey-asshole-stop-working-more-than-us-you-get-paid-too-much-20170225t004118400z
@craig-grant Sorry for bringing up the topic and getting it to spill over here too, but my comment is on point I hope
Cheers we need a bit of moderation I guess the flame is on :D
Several of us have proposed changes such as this including breaking out the flag from the downvoting. So far the developers haven't seen fit to implement it but I do support the idea.
I would agree with this. I think a flag has the wrong connotations due to the name. A separate downvote would be less aggrieving (IMO). I have changed my opinion over time. We need to attract new users and retain them or we are all basically screwed and our investments of time and bitcoins will be worthless. Some pain in the short term may help us all out in the long term.