Some good Friday Follow suggestions @steevc
Regarding downvotes, I really detest them and in my five years here I've never downvoted a single post, nor will I or least that's how I feel now.
I understand downvoting plagiarism but down voting is often used for tit for tat bickering and often affects very very good posts which irks me.
I have said many times that I do not expect everyone to downvote, but it is a necessary part of Hive. The freedom we have here means people can fight, but they are a tiny minority really. I do hate to see good people get caught up in that. You may have seen that it was worse in the past, but some of the nasty people left. I'm all for peace and reconciliation, but I have no control over what others do.
Ya @steevc I completely get it and I am all for free will and I do see the need for a mechanism of this sort, but when it is abused, perhaps that account should be suspended from downvotes for a month? Something like that maybe, though it would be hard to police and decisions to downvote are of course subjective. What I don't like seeing is a detailed post that someone has clearly poured five or six hours into getting downvoted or a post where someone opens up their heart about something like bereavement or something like that and then they are downvoted by an account who clearly has not even read the post they are downvoting.
It's hard to put limits on what people can do without reducing our freedom. Who would get to decide what is allowed? Anyway, people can downvote less than they can upvote, so the damage is limited.
Ah right, I did not actually know that, as I have never used the facility, but good to know that it is more limited than upvoting, which should help a lot with it getting abused. Thanks for the info.