I was there for a while. I left because I could see Haejin quickly self-voting him into the #1 stakeholder position and a bunch of clowns were following suit with rubbish "placeholder" type posts.
Having participated and witnessed it all first hand, I'm pretty confident it was a major contributing factor. It certainly was the reason I left - I saw no future in it.
DEFI is a different model. The inflation model here is supposed to be distributed to people who add value to the platform with good content or whatever.
Exactly, so it is simply a matter of perception that downvotes are important.
They aren't.
'Because the whitepaper said so' is not a good reason.
We could just as easily say, "Okay we're doing yield farming now!"
It wouldn't be a big deal.
If I was in charge around here I'm not sure if I would remove downvotes,
but I certainly would take a more aggressive stance against all the liberal downvotes from huge accounts.
It'd be a big deal for me and I'd be outta here pretty quick.
If I wanted to do yield farming I'd be doing it on STEEM or some other DEFI platform.