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If your are going to change the culture then down votes can't be punitive. It's as plain and simple as that. Nothing changes without freedom of speech, the ship will continue to sink if down votes can be used like flagging.

Freedom of speech is alive and well.. you seem to not have a full understanding of how blockchains work or why downvotes are needed in a reward society.

Sure they are abused, which is unfortunate .. but they are needed.

Downvotes are needed to make sure the ship sinks.

The way it's set up now does't work out well so that argument fails you. Come back when you have an excuse that will actually work.

Works great actually, no excuse needed.

You are the one over there at corporate, you are the one going down with the ship, you don't see me baling water. Narcissism seems to run deep in the current over there, it's been the fact you'd rather paint the color of the ship then put any positive regard into what people are saying as to why this site is losing momentum.

That’s just comical. Try again 😂

Well of course it is, narcissist generally don't view themselves as such.

What reasons do you believe they are needed for?

I agree they are needed but only for downvoting stolen content, abusive behaviour to others on the platform and misinformation that could be harmful if people were to believe it.

I downvoted someone who stole my content on here, but I think that's it. I may have done the other two but I don't remember by now.

I don't believe in flagging people due to disagreement etc, but the reasons given above are reasons to downvote / flag. I'm not sure if we will agree on the reasons you feel it is needed or not, since I don't yet know what those reasons are.

Ganging up on someone and downvoting their every post and not giving them a chance to redeem themselves in your eyes for whatever pissed you off though is a shitty thing that people do on here though and I 100% disagree with that. Each post should be an individual post and someone's time on here shouldn't be completely ruined because of a mistake they made. That's shit.