RE: Poll: Flags or Downvotes?

I’m not sure what you are referring to as me being brought in to work with corporate. If you mean the foundation proposals, I was elected by the community to help organize it.. which pretty much means I worked as the community’s secretary for free for the last few months to help try to improve this place.

As far as my blog having one post.. it clearly says it’s my new blog.. and links to the old one.. where I have been for almost two years. Yeah, I’m not a professional blogger.. as I spend most of my time here curating content (again for free) and trying to help good authors be rewarded, help them find their community and yeah, fight unjust flagging. I know it happens, and usually it can be worked out if each party doesn’t start raging like lunatics.

As far as this site sucking, not sure what that is specifically referring to..we are definitely a work in progress. I guess you mean just the downvotes as you mentioned them specifically. This discussed change is only for how the downvotes/flags will be displayed and has nothing to do with how they will work.. simple as that.

I pretty much speak my mind here, no matter the wallet size and have been flagged plenty for it. Saying people are silenced is not true.. they may have their potential rewards removed and put back into the reward pool (as well as that of the one who flagged them) as well as be “grayed” out.. but they aren’t silenced. And many here will stand up to help those who are unjustly flagged.. the issue is, when most receive a downvote or flag, they rage.. as they feel they are entitled to the payout.. and then they acquire more flags for the ragging.

After awhile, how can the community defend them? There have been many, many cases of someone being unjustly flagged and handling it like an adult, and the situation is resolved.

The issue here is the culture of the downvotes which leads to abuse as well as over reaction. Normalizing the downvotes for what they were intended as well as education and the community pulling together to ensure they are used correctly is the only solution. This UI change as well as further discussion is the way to achieve that.. as well as time and work.

I've seen post raking in hundreds for minimal effort that I can't agree with but I am not going to downvote them or flag them if I could because I see people with large amounts of sp doing the same exact thing. I see people who work really hard putting out some fantastic stuff making a small sum on each post and it really isn't fair to them either but in all due fairness I don't want to get caught up in some battle I am going to lose by confronting the person who flagged them that they just did the exact same thing. It's actually easier to talk to the person whose raging, I've done it before and it worked rather well...but it's a never ending cycle. I don't know what the answer is to be honest.

There's a guy on here who I seen on trending page once and decided to follow. At first it was okay but it basically amounts to the same thing and sometimes it's only two, three paragraphs, once I told him it looked like something he wrote on a napkin after a performance at a bar. He makes hundreds of dollars doing a Daily Affirmations by Stuart Smalley type stuff....I've seen authors on here writing intellectually stimulating stuff of much better caliber then his making less than ten bucks a pop yet months later someone resteemed one of his articles the other day and he's still raking in hundreds, and he has his groupies with their hands out, it ridiculously unfair to the more talented who treat the system fairly but aren't, in my opinion, being rewarded the value they deserve. Everything just seems out of balance.