While I generally agree with you, I do want to point out that the 'collective judgement of a diverse group of people' doesn't really apply to HIVE either. All it takes is one whale to be pissed at you and your time on this platform will be short-lived because you'll be downvote bombed. It's not a straight up kick out ala twitter, but it's effectively the same practice.
Power, even here, is in the hands of a very small group of people.
This is true and one of the shortcomings of Hive as it stands now. One of the main fixes for this is better distribution, which takes time unfortunately. I think other tools should be implemented to mitigate this possibility. Easy visibility to users of the "why" for a downvote, along with some way to measure the veracity of the "why" could help. E.g. all downvotes need a reason on chain. Downvoter selects "This is spam" or "This is plagarism". Other users can then see why it was downvoted and check. If a certain threshold of user verification isn't reached, the downvote is auto removed. Only works (if it does actually work) if there is no option to downvote without reason.
I like this - but there should also be an "other reason" field which can be filled in manually. For example if a killer were to do as you mentioned, or something else illegal or extremely offensive occurred.
And let's not forget about the scammers and hackers. I think we would all love to censor dangerous content?
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Right, I was just making suggestions not a comprehensive list of reasons. But seriously, if there were a killer on here I think reasons for downvoting would be pretty low on our priority list. Somebody might want to call the police lol.
I would think they would already know, but the devs should definitely be working with them. Can't hand Hive over to the serial killer types!
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