I agree with pretty much everything you're saying in this post.
I think it will be interesting to have free downvotes to see if the community of active content creators of quality can come together to downvote those people who act in selfish ways, a decent amount of whom are whales. The reason I've only flagged twice in my 20 months on steem is simply because I didn't want to commit suicide. Nearly every instance where I wanted to flag it was someone who could basically destroy all of my effort on steem if they so chose to.
I wonder if large groups of different (levels of sp) steemians would be able to come together in consensus to agree to seriously put a dent in the earnings of high power bad actors, i think it's more likely to be a possibility with free (separate) down votes. Equally, it could just turn into a larger version of flag wars as dodgy whales band together to stomp any group who might try and regulate their behaviour with combined down vote actions.
I think it's going to be complex, but change needs to happen and change is rarely easy.
I have been thinking along the same lines as far as a possible requirement to come together and focus on the worst cases.
No idea how it will pan out, it's up to the people......
Yeah, and the steem community is made up of a bunch of people with a wide range of both affiliations and ethical stances on different issues with steem. I think there's gonna be a lot of push and pull, and political shenanigans, in any such large group of people looking to regulate with downvotes as a collective.
Ha ha, or maybe I'd be surprised, and everyone would just agree... Odds are about a million to one against I'd say 😂
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Can you imagine a competitor coming in and buying 5 million Steem purely to bring out the down-votes :O
Lol, that would be a little like
Feel the power of my downvotes 🤣
🤔 what ever happened to grumpy cat. I actually don’t remember what happened post the war on bots
he runs a bot.
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Funny - but true :D
out of the 35, there are only 17 active. and the largest of them are generally doing pretty well. There are a few orcas who might not be doing so well though.
Because it is high profile you see it but there is no incentive for anyone else to flag them. i think things would be different with some free flags.
I tihnk so.
Yeah, I think it would be different with free flags as well. At the very least, it might take time to improve things, but I reckon it would in the long run 🙂
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There would be a balancing period where people adjust but I think it would be okay.