Yes
Downvote button next to the upvote one that cannot go below 0 rshares (hide content)
List top votes with downvotes at the bottom. (less visible)
We could extract some very valuable curation from the few downvotes that may occur.
It won't affect the reward distribution or "people exploit the rewards pool" until there are cheaper downvotes implemented in the form of a separate downvote pool that doesn't take from your upvoting power.
If the downvote button is next to the upvote button, then I think it's certain that some of the time (even if it's less than 1% of the time) people will click the wrong button by mistake. I would consider it bad User Interface and Experience design. If the buttons are not at all close to each other, it would be much better.
Each side of the reward amount was suggested.
That's close enough for people to understand they are related.
If it doesn't hide content, how do you deal with people retaliating flags with dick and shit pictures?
The problem on Steemit is not dick and shit pictures - hell, they would be a lot more interesting than 90% of what is being posted now, the problem is that all the real bloggers have been driven off the platform by relentless flagging by hundreds of bots belonging to whales.
It's interesting in a perverse way of to see the controlled upvoting on the comments on this ridiculous "poll" - this really has to be some kind of farce! Does anyone actually think any of this is real? I'd rather look at some dick and shit pictures.
Having this bullshit pinned to my feed as a "featured post" was the final straw that convinced me that Steemit really is all over...
And then seeing that a new downvote button is already there the very next day, on a platform that literally can't fix a major user interface balls up like no longer sorting followed accounts alphabetically, after many months, shows just want a con this "poll" always was.
I have no idea what the aim of Steemit's devious controllers really is, but downvoting and flagging is all about control, censorship, and profiteering. Which is why, like nearly all my Steemit friends, I have quit posting and given up on this platform.
Spam, porn spam, bid bots, plagiarism, and other forms of abuse are rampant nowadays.
Author blacklist options in the interface?
I think steempeak already does this.
That doesn’t solve the problem of the outside world stumbling across a post with 100 images of dicks because I flagged their spam.
If they see it on steempeak, it will.
Is there anything, other than interface blacklists, that can stop it?
It's just a fact of the blockchain until the population of those kind of folks decreases?
Sites have moderators. On Steem that’s the community.
You can argue free speech and allow people to plaster dicks everywhere but is that what we want.
I recently flagged a spammer and he did just that. Posting tons of porn gifs in all my posts. I had a few people ask me if Steem turned into RedTube.
There has to be some way for the community to collectively moderate if we want to be decentralized without authority.
Think about what it makes us look like to the outside world looking in.
I get it, and if your readers use your muting preferences then they will never see them.
Good luck getting stinc to do something like that, though.
They seem to be on the other side from most of us.
You use the flag for that.
If there is still a mechanism for that then I am in agreement.
Speaking of shit, I took a dump in your wallet! Take a trip to the bathroom to claim your worthless SHIT!