First, I want to commend you @scholaris and your team members for this well-thought-out tribe.
ON The Downvote and aspect,
If there can be an option to protest downvote, it will go a long way to help fight off downvote abuse. it should come in such a way that if a writer appeals against a downvote and the appeal was reviewed, and it came out that he was downvoted wrongly, he should be compensated while the person who downvoted him wrongly will be punished, perhaps muted for a week or so. ( if the person happens to be a newbie, the community should consider it as an error and then warn him) if the reverse happens to be the case, the writer is further punished for the extra effort the moderator made in investigating his complaint.
On Engagement Aspect.
Can it be possible that users of this new tribe will be given a minimum monthly expected number of Comments? This can increase engagement.
can there be a word prompt that once used on a post by other writers will notify moderators about a particular post.
That's a slippery slope, my friend. I will start this particular discussion first by asking you a question:
Lol. I take this back.
Well, it's an important question. I'm not trying to corner you in any way.
I like to start addressing it with a question I'm sure we should be agree with like "should someone who only adds a period in their article receive $100 Hive"? I think we'd both agree they should not receive that amount. They shouldn't receive anything.
Should someone with high VP self-vote their posts at 100% even once?
Well, to answer this question, we should look at it this way? , is it wrong for someone to upvote his post? , I don't think so.
Is it wrong for one to continuously upvote his post?, this is where the answer seems to be difficult.
Again, is it encouraged that friend upvote his other posts respective of the quality of the content?
It isn't wrong, unless it becomes excessive. It seems to hove around 9-10% of acceptability. Outside of that and downvotes typically occur throughout Hive. VYB won't allow self-votes to occur.
The same reasoning as above applies.
Ok, and the third question?
Are you still referring to self-votes? If that is the case, then no, it is not encouraged in the VYB tribe. The founder doesn't want any self-voting.
There won't be down vote on the Verify Your Brain new tribe.