RE: Dear SportsTalkSocial Members

Despite all the good reasons for downvoting posts or comments, don't we think that upvoting quality content should be a priority?

I have seen plenty of posts that imo deserve a significant upvote but don't get any. If we support those, especially in the early stages of establishment, the long-term impact will be far greater.

I also question the mob/crowd tactics. Is it fair to flag up people and ask others to downvote? It may be straightforward in some cases, but in others, who knows? The examples listed are blatant (and justified), but not all I them may be.

It makes more sense to me to have a cleaning service (as proposed) that can downvote on posts in a transparent way. This will only be fair if it is driven by the community and has transparency. That would also allow for an educational element (I believe in educating members first before handing out punishment) that would retain community members (by being welcoming) and improve quality overall. The SteemStem community is a nice example I think.

Anyways, these are my 2 cents. In short, I support action on bad actors but we may have to organise ourselves to ensure fairness and positivity.

Hi @p-sycophant

Yes i understand your points and would much prefer to spend my time seeking good content to support over finding blatant abuse.

In theory, a downvote raises the value of ever other reward that is pending payout. Solid content can be missed, but reducing rewards on abuse is kind of like an upvote to everything else, and this could be really noticeable if a lot of pending reward was removed from undeserving content.

I hope that 'mob tactics' don't come into play, i guess part of it is that the larger accounts are somewhat in tune with what is unacceptable, and that everyone should try to avoid taking without adding value.

It makes more sense to me to have a cleaning service (as proposed) that can downvote on posts in a transparent way.

I believe this is coming, but as it is not here just yet and rewards are already leaking out to blatant abuse, I don't think we should sit by and watch. I expect a Discord channel or a daily report will appear soon enough.

Thanks for your input,

Asher