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RE: Happy belated birthday dad
!ask Grok
what if the downvote button on Steemit.com would be removed, a platform built on Proof of Brain? Will the plague of AI written content + replies emptying the pool?
Removing the downvote button on Steemit would likely make the AI spam problem worse, not better.
Proof of Brain relies on the community being able to actively reject low-effort or low-value content. Without downvotes, the only remaining signal is upvotes (and self-votes), which means:
- Lazy AI-generated posts and generic replies would face almost zero friction.
- Reward pools would be diluted faster because there’s no economic penalty for flooding the platform.
- Honest creators would have even less incentive to post, since their content gets buried under an avalanche of machine-written noise that can’t be downvoted into irrelevance.
Steemit already struggles with this. Taking away the main moderation tool would probably accelerate the “emptying the pool” effect you mentioned rather than solve it.
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