Why Downvoting is a necessary action many users are afraid to use!!!!!
Welcome back to another vlog by your by your boy @mrviquez Today I picked up a camera and just started speaking my mind. I have only been on the platform for two months and have not had to ever downvote anyone. There have been many post and comments where I felt a downvote was needed but never acted on it. I guess I feel the same fear any other user feels. No one wants to be that "GUY or GIRL" that becomes the single downvoter. Most people are afraid of getting targeted by other users with greater Steem Power. I myself do not have a huge amount of SteemPower and I will be the first to admit that I am scared of getting into a downvoting war with another user.
But there comes a time when we must all begin to flex that muscle on here. It is not our job to go around downvoting but it is our responsibility to help keep this beautiful platform of ours clean and free of scammers and spammers. At this very moment it is not a huge problem. But with the steady rise of new users signing up to the platform the tricksters are inevitably going to find their way in. The one thing we have on our side is that most true scammers and spammers have low SteemPower. So anyone who has been on Steemit posting and earning awards should easily be able to downvote and scammers on here.
I really have not seen many scam post but what I do see all the time is scam and spam links. If these blood sucking parasites constantly receive backlash from the true Steemit communities we will be able to drastically lower the amount of garbage post taking up space on out revolutionary Blockchain.
So I promise that from this day forth I will do my part to help keep our platform free of spam and scams!!!!! Will you all do the same?
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SO WHAT YOUR SAYING IS THAT I SHOULD DOWN VOTE NOW ????LOL
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upvoted you
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upvoted you for upvoting
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True the downvote is really necessairy
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I agree! We must downvote more.
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This is the exact reason why I'm afraid to downvote. It's hard enough to make it here as a newbie without enemies.
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Downvoting isn't neccessary really, facebook once considered adding the dislike button ( same like downvote button) but they found it offensive according to their survey results. If steemit must go mainstream and take over centralised social communities, it needs more of community building which is built on tolerance, love and selfless people.
Reddit which steemit was modelled after has downvote button, reddit users have horrible expereince with downvote button. Also we should take into account how whales with huge steem power can misuse such downvote button, the flag button is doing a great damage to some people already.
But what do i know.
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Yes you are right the downvote button can be abused. But if there was no downvote button Steemit would not be what it is today.
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A flag button doesn't do the work still?
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People cannot fear what is right... I'm with ya boss :)
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Very valid points. Scammers for sure. I would also say down vote the porn and obvious plagiarism.
Keep steemit quality.
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So true
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I see the downvote more of a way for the community to regulate itself. As Steemit grows bigger, there will be a greater chance for posts and comments to be "downvote worthy." In that sense, I think the downvote would be necessary too.
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When I was new, without realizing, but doing it just to test vote, no vote, then immediately back to vote right away... it did probably hurt my reputation. I never intended to remove the vote, I just was testing the permanence of the blockchain. Well, it lets you do whatever you want, but it records it all on the blockchain. Can someone clarify if a downvote is same as a flag? One you hit the arrow, the other you hit the flag.
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I didn't know "down voting" existed!!
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It's not really an option, you just have to flag a post and that in itself is considered downvoting.
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If I smell or see a steembot like cheetah notices it''s copy paste or when the content is too poor and or old news I flag always
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It creates negative impact to the community. It creates conflict and anger...unless, dislikes notification is hidden. One reason why other socializing sites removed dislikes button? Not a good idea to have it.
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I like it! Maybe there should be a list the way top posts get listed? Does this already exist?
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Anyone know the whole intent of the 'downvote'?
Was it for protection from spammers and scammers?
Can getting in a downvoting war get people banned?
Good post, man!
Thanks for sharing a positive way to utilize the downvote!
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Im pretty new, i didn't knew about this. Thanks for the post
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I'm a noobie on here too and it all seems a bit intimidating to hear things about getting into down voting wars. Thankfully, the reason I joined Steem was because it seems like a progressive place for progressive thinking people. Let's hope it continues that way so the word of great things such as this spread!
Noobie as I may be, I agree that sometimes we must do the right thing for the community and those that want to engage in conversations or topics instead of detract from them.
P.S. please don't down vote me for ranting on in my first ever comment....
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Thanks for your reply!
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Even people you trust, can accidentally compromise your information. You should still be cautious.
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Realtalk! Can't be scared to let people know how you feel!
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I think flagging is only necessary for malicious or plagiarized content. Free speech is important, so I think it shouldn't be abused or used as a tool to bully someone, that a person doesn't like. Like people that use flagging bots.
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Downvote is only required very rarely as people are very cautious before doing any scam or spam, as reputation has a great value here at Steemit. If anyone looking at Steemit for long-term, then they would never think of doing anything wrong willingly.
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Yes this is true but it is not a rare thing that I see spam comments on posts
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