What Happens If You Remove DownVotes...

nonameslefttouse (74) · 5 years ago

It was a generous move for them to go there, create that, show us all how to screw up — so we don't have to.

I avoided all of the knockoff sites. Most folks simply double-posted their content from here, so there was no reason to go there anyway.

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5 votes

whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

Agreed!

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theguruasia (67) · 5 years ago

@whatsup,
Downvotes should be here, but without those crazy ammo! I don't think @traf or @trafalgar is doing wrong! For me it's his investment and he got more than what we have! So we feel "that's not fair enough", but again it's his investment and he is utilizing it in a nice way! So I don't think he deserve a flag! Hope you might not get angry with my viewpoint!
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Cheers~

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6 votes

whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

Nope not angry. I think the stakeholder have a right to upvote or downvote what they think ads value.

I'm not angry with him. I just don't think he ads any value and infact I think he demoralizes the community with his shit posts. In my opinion that is worthy of a downvote, but not anger and although I don't really respect it, in no way do I think it makes him evil.

Possibly short sited and dumb though.

jaki01 (74) · 5 years ago

Nope not angry.

Actually, I sometimes tend to getting angry, because some stakeholders not only devalue their own stake but also mine ... But on the other side I came here voluntarily, nobody forced me to invest in STEEM, so I shouldn't blame anybody else than I myself. :)

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gduran (69) · 5 years ago

Basically you are saying that if downvotes disappear Steemit will also disappear because of that?

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3 votes

stackin (78) · 5 years ago

I’m still on whaleshares 😂🤣😅

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

Sorry to hear it! :)

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stackin (78) · 5 years ago

Hey now! It’s free to do 😂😂

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

lol

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freebornangel (73) · 5 years ago

!beer

Flag 'em all!

I lost fba on bitshares,...🙁

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sunlit7 (59) · 5 years ago

....he who laughs last laughs best.

whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

Most of the people I have run into today are crying, so anyone laughing is having a better time here than they are elsewhere.

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enforcer48 (68) · 5 years ago

Even better.

Their new inflation system is something like 70% goes to stakeholders and 15% goes to author reward pool. Not sure what the remaining 15% is for. Maybe witnesses?

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

haha, that's crazy. I've been hearing ours talk about routing all rewards through SPS. lol.

DPOS creates some interesting challenges in a downward market.

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minismallholding (69) · 5 years ago

At first I was a bit resentful that I couldn't seem to get myself a bitshares account in order to get a whaleshares account set up. Now I'm feeling a bit of schadenfreude at the idea that it seems to be failing...

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oldtimer (75) · 5 years ago

I'm not against but I think that your expectations that downvotes will save this ship are way too high.

We'll see who's right.

4 votes

inertia (73) · 5 years ago

There is no silver bullet. Downvotes are just one tool that we need to protect.

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

I don't think they will save the platform. :)

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soyrosa (74) · 5 years ago

Nods

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steemitqa (64) · 5 years ago

They will be the first blockchain to close down I predict.

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

haha, I bet there are others. But yeah... wonder how their witnesses are doing.

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abh12345 (76) · 5 years ago

Going to 0 by the looks of it. What a strange idea to remove the only mechanism to financially re-evaluate content.

Steem is heading in the right direction but there is no map to follow and so I guess it's going to take a bit of trial and error.

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

Oh yeah, it will probably be worth it at some point, but I do expect it is going to be messy for a bit.

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celestal (71) · 5 years ago

Haha, drama meter, I love it 😂

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4 votes

themarkymark (78) · 5 years ago

I have been wanting to see how it looks when they removed downvotes but I could never pull myself to do it. Thanks for taking one for the team and having a look.

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10 votes

freebornangel (73) · 5 years ago

!beer

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6 votes

newageinv (70) · 5 years ago

Surely a tough market out there! This is why I still think we are undervalued as our passion as a community keeps us going despite the drama!

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shadowspub (70) · 5 years ago

Very interesting perspective.... I see you brought out the ever articulate, gracious and diplomatic hisself for a demonstration of greatness.
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scipio (65) · 5 years ago

At least my comments are botted! ;-)
Was a joke response to these "account preservation posts"...

PS, ref:

The value of a whaleshares is less than 1 bitshare

1 WLS is currently worth 0.0876 BTS ... (1/12th of a BTS)

PS2, on Aug. 15th, "HF3" happened on Whaleshares.

now you can create a new account (provided you have one already) from https://wallet.whaleshares.io/ (at the cost of 10 WLS + an extra depending on how short the account name is); so that's OK
but the blockchain software whaled is now closed source, so the witnesses can't / won't even evaluate its code...

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tarazkp (80) · 5 years ago

but the blockchain software whaled is now closed source, so the witnesses can't / won't even evaluate its code

Lols???

adsup (62) · 5 years ago

Sounds interesting

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southernwolf (53) · 5 years ago

Yeah, eliminating downvotes completely destroys the "Value Creation" system which is vital to the creation of a blockchain social media community. This is one of the key issues with Gab as well, downvotes are purely aesthetic in nature, so there is no community moderation of crap on the platform. However, encouraging downvotes for downvoting's sake, as many post I've seen recently do, is also a horrendous idea, which nullifies the value creation system. Downvoting should only be used as a form of community, i.e. value, moderation, not opinion declaration.

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

While I hear what you are saying and I agree we can not control someone else's idea of a valid downvote. So, we will have to accept some of them are dumb.

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southernwolf (53) · 5 years ago

Oh yes, there is no way to control how people vote. Never has been and never will, or should, be either. However, you can determine how someone votes by how the feature is marketed. Which would go counter to the slew of posts I've seen recently saying something to the effect of:

Here's how to get you ready to downvote far more often: First, go find a post, then downvote it, then leave a comment explaining why you don't like it.

See the issue here? Instead of saying, downvote crap posts which add no value, it's downvote posts you don't like... Something can be a very articulate and detailed post, but could get downvoted simply because people didn't agree with what was written. Marketing of this new feature is key if it is going to succeed. And so far, the marketing has been very lackluster...

whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

What is this word... "marketing"

That you speak of.

Yeah, I've been trying to get some of those who pushed for HF21 to get out there and set expectations. Nope they don't think they have to I guess.

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southernwolf (53) · 5 years ago

Marketing: the process or technique of promoting, selling, and distributing a product or service (Merriam-Webster) ;)

Lol, well this was one of those that was pushing for HF21, and he's one of those advocating this (incredibly stupid and destructive) position. I guess it's easy to promote an idea when you don't actually look into the fundamentals of it. I'd leave the author's post, but I'm honestly tired of having said author(s) reply back with nasty comments because someone criticized them.

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marcusantoniu26 (62) · 5 years ago

There is a purpose for downvotes. Not to be used as liberally as @whatsup would like, but still are useful. If someone got unfairly downvoted, I would love to see support from the powerful (in the form of upvotes preferably).

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

I fully agree with this! Our stakeholders and users should try to offset unreasonable downvotes.

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lucylin (67) · 5 years ago (edited)

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

you always confuse two issues. Downvoting for opinion by an overzealous whale which I disagree with and always have.

^ that being an issue does not nullify our need to fight those who are over rewarded and not adding value.

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lucylin (67) · 5 years ago

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olivia08 (69) · 5 years ago

Whatever it takes l love steemit so much.

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fredkese (69) · 5 years ago

I'm still there

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bidesign (63) · 5 years ago

Dear God,

Please Give 1000000 steem to whatsup account and remove flags and downvotes.

Amen 🙏

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

On the day we no longer have downvotes, the whatsup account will hold 0 steem.

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bidesign (63) · 5 years ago (edited)

Are you holding them to downvote people?

Please inform me not to comment on your posts.

“Bidesign you don’t understand from this job and fed up with your stupid comments. Please don’t write on my posts and don’t waste my time”

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

No, I like comments. I just don't like scammers. If I have invested time and energy into this, I just don't have the willingness to watch a bunch of idiots steal the rewards because some whiners are too sad to accept the occasional flag.

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pastzam (55) · 5 years ago

There is also a clone called bearshares.
!giphy zombie

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3 votes

giphy (53) · 5 years ago

rocksg (69) · 5 years ago

How do you use so many tags here?🤔

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juliakponsford (70) · 5 years ago

Steempeak allows 10 tags and some other frontends offer more than 5.

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

Busy.org

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shadeserver (44) · 5 years ago

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freedomexists (64) · 5 years ago (edited)

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ats-david (74) · 5 years ago

You don't have a clue what's going on and why I have done that for the past 3 months, long before they removed flagging.

Well...why have you been doing it? You forgot to mention that.

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5 votes

doon (47) · 5 years ago

Yes please do tell, I think we all are curious.

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inertia (73) · 5 years ago

urbangladiator (69) · 5 years ago (edited)

My interpretation is that she isn't saying that you create those posts because there are no downvotes... but that you probably wouldn't create those posts if downvotes were a feature.

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4 votes

whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

Exactly, he completely missed it.

freedomexists (64) · 5 years ago (edited)

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

Gee, I just can't imagine why things didn't go well over there. :)

Anyway, good to see you.

lol... I think we are obviously misunderstanding each other.

freedomexists (64) · 5 years ago

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

yeah things haven't been going well for us either. Although, it hard to compare the two.

I didn't downvote any of this.. I wouldn't have. I upvoted your first nasty comment up. I think you should be able to reveal your character by the way you conduct yourself.

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freedomexists (64) · 5 years ago (edited)

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

Now, now...

The point is... if the community disagreed after the flags were removed.. they wouldn't be able to do ANYTHING. We are having a similar issue, which I pointed out in my post.

Resorting to name-calling and personal attacks isn't becoming of who I thought you were.

Rather than setting the record straight a full up melt down...

!dramatoken

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freedomexists (64) · 5 years ago

Ah ha ha ha ha ha! Do you have any sense of embarrassment? You're not very adept at backtracking are you?! I would suggest you stop digging that hole even more, you look pathetic enough already.

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freedomexists (64) · 5 years ago

Lol!!!! You can flag. But you can't hide. Idiot.

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

yeah, sorry it got flagged. I wanted everyone to see how you "Set the record straight and defended your honor and the honor of your project. ;)

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freedomexists (64) · 5 years ago

Now you just sound like a jibbering idiot, and you're making no sense. Feel free to upvote any of my comments to unflag.

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whatsup (75) · 5 years ago

Look, you can call names, act like a bully, yell insults... I don't care.

The post wasn't about you. Your post was just a screenshot I took.

If you want to take it all personally that's really not my problem. What I said is without flags there is nothing anyone can do about ugly shit like your posts. I did not speak to how and when they came about and why. I didn't speak to whether or not you are a good or a bad guy. We also have people here who self vote and who aren't flagged. If we remove flags we will never be able to address it.

We also have users who advocate for no flags. I was showing them what it looks like and how there is nothing you can do about it if you remove flags.

You can try to twist this to be some sort of personal attack on you, if you would like.

You can call me every name in the book.

I don't care. Anyway, you've made my point in many ways.

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dramatoken (62) · 5 years ago

Such drama, you've earned a DRAMA!

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pastzam (55) · 5 years ago

Whaleshares RIP
!giphy dead

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giphy (53) · 5 years ago

skramatters (66) · 5 years ago

Juicy drama I'm fresh outta tokens tho 👀

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lordbutterfly (70) · 5 years ago (edited)

Dude, all the luck to you on Whaleshares but you know youre doing these posts only to reduce the loss from the price drop. WLS has dropped far under 1 bts. Those posts right now earn you a whopping 20 cents.
The guys running the platform screwed you. Theyre incompetent and fear the open market. They want to hide in their corner of Bitshares.

Your stake right now is worth about 500 USD. How many thousands of dollars have you spent at the start? 5000$? 10 000$?
There is no salvaging any of that and there is no money left for them to list WLS on any exchange.

Whaleshares is dead and its the "separatist" mentality that killed it along with the people in charge hiding from the open market. .

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