Good News! Downvoting is Already Increasing!

With the new Downvote Pool things are bound to get interesting after HF21.

In fact, I see several large accounts are already pre-emptively getting mad about the idea they might get downvoted for self voting.

I see that as a good thing, it means they are considering their strategy after the HF.

This is how we should view it and train it:

A post is open for reactions for 7 days.

Everyone in the community has the right and ability, if not the desire to check out your post and react with their SteemPower. They can upvote it because they think it holds value or downvote it if they think it is harmful for some reason. They can also just ignore it or not vote at all.

No one is removing anything, they are just expressing their opinion.

At the end of the seven days any rewards you have earned become yours and are transferred to your wallet where no one can touch it.

Most active Steemians will acknowledge there are lot of posts that do not create value, some are not rewarded and some are. If we want the community to curate, we have to consider changing how we react.

In my opinion this box should have been removed

The truth is that people can downvote for any reason including:

• Opinions
• Personal Battles
• Trolling

I could keep making the list, the thing is people can downvote and they will. Some will do it to hurt their perceived enemies, make a point, hurt Steem, express their unhappiness, or sometimes for disagreement with rewards.

How we talk about and present downvoting matters, many keep saying it is bad for the platform. I think the downvote situation is a cultural reaction and we can change it with a consistent message.

Don't be rude when you downvote and remain calm when you are downvoted.

If you are a good user who produces good content and you get downvoted repeatedly for something personal talk to a witness, a stakeholder or someone about offsetting the downvotes.

Personally, I think there is going to be a huge backlash and a lot of downvote wars right after the Hardfork, how you react can make a difference.

Also, there will likely be huge amounts of DRAMA. dRAMA is ready and waiting.

Remember though, you can create a drama over a downvote you do not have to.

*for all of you who are going to tell me how dumb it is to allow downvotes. I didn't make the hardfork I am just getting prepared.

Also it would be really cool for some people to get some benchmark data on daily downvotes and publish to the community whether that increases or decreases after the hardfork.

@whatsup