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RE: Steemit's Got Issues! Community Discussion - Whales Cannot Decide Everything - Take 1
Check out specifically this post. It deals exactly with the matter of downvotes.
Full disclosure: Bernie and Transisto IMHO are fighting a good fight. We have other, more quiet, whales who make people leave because of their downvote wars.
Wonderfully written post!
I think you lay out a great example of how downvoting can be changed to be much more fairly regulated.
I will add to it one thing...
The need for there to be a clear set of rules governing what can and cannot be flagged and what can and cannot be done/posted here on steemit.
With out a clear set of rules then there is no irrefutable way to decide if the poster is right (plagiarism aside as this is irrefutable) or the downvoter is right. With no rules one could easily say that both are wrong or none are.
This is some of the reason that many believe transisto and bernie to be in the wrong. A clear set of rules would either show that they are indeed doing what is right, or indeed doing what is wrong and clean up some of the clearly grey area surrounding what they do.
Great input man! Thanks!
Wouldn't it be nice. But there does not seem to be a practical way to do this without centralizing authority. I've spoken to the smartest people I can find here about this, debated with them, for a year now and I have yet to see a single workable solution.
I recently wrote about how ideas are nice but if they are not workable then they are just dreams. Can you think of a way to implement and enforce rules on flagging and posting?
Just on posting in particular, there is a large free speech contingent here and I don't think they'd take too kindly to any rules which say what can and can't be posted. In other words, isn't that direct censorship?