Hey, thank you for all that feedback, I know a lot of discussion went in, I said arbitrary because how could anyone really know what the effects would be.
I would should perhaps be more supportive of delegating my downvotes to scam and plagerism fighting. I think 98% of users don't support most of the downvotes that they see. (that much of the real crime fighting doesn't get seen, I am aware of).
And a lot of steem is going the way of obfuscation anyway, through tribes and smts...
There is only a tiny handful of people actually using downvotes to better the platform.
That's kind of my point. Are we sure these clear benefits are not being offset by negative consequences? (ie the scammers now have downvotes, etc)
Cops don’t get rid of guns because criminals have them as well.
I respectfully have to point out this difference: Guns always exist in that analogy. We code the guns into the chain here.
They are a balance, without them we would become Whaleshares and people will just make account preservation posts and milk rewards without any challenge.
Without downvotes we would have 1000 Haejins until we ultimately become worthless.
Well, I am honestly impressed on how that cleared up....
Hows ranchorelaxo is he a curator now?
I appreciate the real talk! Also, I feel like a @rhymebot vote just for your fun hyperbole there :)
We are facing strong downvote pressure from a single user in the @steembasicincome community. We are working on unleashing the program to allow balance delivery curation style, but either way our users are not scammers and we support global blacklists like the one you run.
It is in this vein that I propose a lowering of the downvote pool, but I am open to trying on any and all possible solutions.
And by the way, it hasn’t been just Rancho that was cleared up. Many others with similar motives just less stake. For example me-Tarzan is a recent one who was farming near 100% efficiency with a few hundred thousand SP.
Rancho (aka Haejin since he has the keys) is mostly voting the KR community where there is almost no votes so he can get the best curation rewards as possible. Only because that’s the best he can get away with.
As for SBI, the community has taken a stance against paid votes and while SBI isn’t a bid bot it does fall into paid votes category.