RE: Downvote Pool Deep Dive
I like your view which does not fall aside from Steemit view (I think). And wanted to just comment on something you said that is quite interesting...
If it were up to me, ways and means would have to be found to contain 'flag wars' waged purely for personal motives. For example, a committee of respected users elected by the community and equipped with sufficient delegated STEEM power could be called in such cases and then decide whether the flags were justified or not.
This is basically a DAO for me. Which would make lots of sense, to me.
So, elaborating on your idea... a pool of STEEM could be "formed" based on either the weight of how much people like about the DAO representatives. The POOL would not be owned by anyone specifically and it would be up to the "board" that represent and execute the "work" how to spend that POOL on downvoting "cases" (no matter the size, but I would imagine that bigger ones would tend to be more popular here). This would be something like a justice council for complex schemes of downvoting within the community. Just like a court... of some sort... But one that gets decided by the community.
Does it make any sense for you guys?
If you ask me: yes, something like that (the idea still needs further elaboration) ...
Of course there shouldn't be discussed every single flag because that would be huge amount of work and too time-consuming. I see it as a means for cases like when - for example - one user feels threatened in his STEEM existence because a whale is permanently flagging him.
The "time-consuming" to me, is always something to sort with UIs and some AI-assisted facilitation for the user... But I understand why you mentioned it. In the future this will become less prone to "hard work" based activity, and there will be more intelligent ways for users to do analysis and make decisions quicker.
Hm ... apart from the fact that it could be possible to support decision making in future by AI, would you be in favour of deciding about every single flag?
I had in mind that such a 'committee' would only get active if someone complains ... but of course that's not the only thinkable option.
Not every single flag... I would think it as, "you need to bring a special case". In my view the community should be the one to flag. But on situations of power or scheme where the user is somehow imprisoned either by lack of power or because of "bugs"... this committee should be there "to make things better". They might not be able to solve all problems, and that is a consequence of who votes for the committee.
AI will mostly (or should) help with analysis of things. Giving you valuable information about what's happening without you having to go and look for everything (which is practically already impossible on STEEM).