I have been tempted to flag a number of unworthy posts in trending for a while now. I’d rather give those votes to more worthy authors instead.
With a downvote pool people will be able to hide better in numbers. Sounds kind of cowardly but it’s true. Sure everyone will have the same ability as well. I would not be shocked if my hatters come out of hiding and zero me out.
At least abusers if they are getting flagged by the masses won’t have the ability to fully retaliate without draining themselves and putting more effort into dealing with that then the posts they create.
The biggest issue I see is curation guilds/major projects not wanting to get their trails involved in down voting. So downvotes could become quite powerful with less people using that voting pool. Add in downvote selling and now revenge is easy to carry out.
I just hope this platform doses not turn into one massive witch hunt after another with its new downvote pool powers. Where the 1% zero out the other 99% as a way to make more money themselves and to force people to pay for “protection.”