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RE: Is Steem built to last? is the latest HF working
Downvotes are for plagiarism/art theft/stuff like that ;D
At least that's all I use them for and it's been very few and far between seeing as these days I only look at the art tag through CCC now anyway.
Far enough
After such a dark patch in Steem history, its time to focus on positives (upvotes). Any system that focuses on things in a positive light will always do better....but lacking a better system of governance, if downvotes are what it takes then I'm all for it, I just hope people don't use it for hate reasons and just use it for reasonable reasons like those you mentioned
Cheers
There will be people using it for hate reasons as some don't seem to have emotionally grown past toddlerhood XD
We just have to act how we want other people to act.
Absolutely….I have nothing against downvotes as that's what the majority of people wanted.. I still reserve my personal view they are bad to focus on; that when we have systems that encourage good behaviour, focus heavily on strengths, then positive things come and are rewarded (it becomes a positive culture) - it always takes you to a better place then a system of negative things are punished. It's just a mindset and intuition thing...no one wants a downvote, even someone who knows they are doing the wrong thing....the emotional reaction at receiving will be either "damn I got caught" or "I blame someone else or lash out and quit"; the later not being something we want people to do because of a minor indiscretion.
If your handing one out, it's already too late (a person has done a wrong thing) -- much better to guide people with a carrot then a stick...but yeah, as you said not always possible to encourage some truly immature - which on those very rare occasions I would think a downvote might be merited...but still the last resort.
Hehe maybe I'm just too soft.
The downvotes have always been there (they were just called flags before). And I think the only reason there's so much fuss being made of them now is because we have two and a bit that won't waste vp when you use them.