I'd rather delegate my downvotes if I'm being honest. I've been part of a flag trail for a while and it got me pictures of poop on a very personal/sensitive post that I now hate to share because everyone reading that post will then get literal shit on his screen afterwards. Also, this person then found me on Discord sending me a dick pic. It wasn't really fun and this wasn't even a big account or whatever.
This is just one example of how I felt I didn't want to do it as long as I'm a content creator as people can really screw with your content if they want to retaliate. Maybe if I'd have large stake and didn't have to post anymore because I could make Steem through other means... Yes, I'd downvote more.
I'm probably going to use my downvotes but I'll be sure to be 'smart' about them and not be cowboy, just follow community initiatives to bring rewards of a certain abuser down, stuff like that. We need to balance the scale in the reward pool, and/but it's going to take a while to get sentiment on downvotes normalized. I say normalized because I believe they have been skewed towards 'he hates me this is unfair!' for a long long time.
TL;DR: I'm going to use my downvotes but I'm not going to be a hero about it as long as I create content and care for the blog/image I'm building.
I really wish downvote delegation made it into the proposal. Most users are not prepared to spend the time, risk, and focus on abuse fighting.
Being able to delegate it to a qualified group would help a lot.
Yes, I agree with all of that. We could probably get a lot of people to delegate ‘Flag Power’ with some effort, but only a small percentage to actually flag themselves.
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