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It will take months (if not years) for a new user to learn about self-voting and circle-voting.

But one thing any new user will immediately notice - a negative vote. There is a reason, why major social networks do not have downvote options. This is a huge deterrent to the user experience and it turns new users from "promoters" into "demoters" of the network.

If I post something on Facebook, I only need to care about my friends who might see my post. On YouTube, Twitter, Instagram - I have to be mindful of corporate censorship (which goes beyond officially declared rules).

But here on Hive things are much more complicated. We've got a set of "community authorities" which invent their own policies and can cause serious harm to those who dare to trespass these rules.

Communities on Hive can provide a shelter to sub-groups of users from these overreaching policies, but only to a certain degree. The only effective solution - are SMTs, because they would enable sub-communities with a specific distribution of voting rights.