RE: Curation rewards are still broken
Perhaps we could look at the downvote system as a courtesy we all provide (at no cost) that is used to the communities advantage?
By utilizing it we could help filter out bad, unprofessionally written and non proofread articles that are just junk posts seeking payouts. Pushing the more interesting and wanted to see articles up.
We could use it to locate bots and terminate them. locate plagiarized articles, and all other forms of things that the downvote system should OR shouldn't be used for. Again that's why I like to think of it as an irrelevant vote that still carries some precedence to the community as a whole.
As you said each system can be abused, but this one can be the one outlet we all can utilize that doesn't pay out curation rewards and carries no other motive to get you to use it other than to maintain a cleaner & more professional Steemit experience for all. #crypt0 #truecrypto #craigrant
I think there are people here that do this. There are also a large number that don't purely because of the incentive associated with upvoting.
Perhaps this is what you want, but the message being sent is: upvoting is more important to steemit than downvoting. This seems also the case from a usability perspective: upvoting is at the end of a post and clearly associated with its incentive; downvoting is at the top right and looks like a flag.
I hope I don't sound too insensitive. I'm not sure that rewarding downvoting is the answer, but the current situation doesn't fill me with confidence that we'll achieve what we want: that quality content is made visible to Steemers and that plagarised, fake, and otherwise poor content is not.