More power to the trolls, great. Instead of fixing a current problem, they're going to make it worse. I think downvotes are being abused for years and with this option, I don't even want to think about what will happen. I bet Flag Wars will escalate to a point of absurdity.
Trolls max out their DV power anyway. Giving Trolls 20%ish more power while giving everyone else 100% more power (no one uses DVs atm much because it's costly) is a fair trade-off. The minority are those who downvote maliciously; the majority will downvote to protect the inflation pool from abuse.
I don't think people refrain from downvoting because it "costs" something.
Most accounts downvotes hold no water against a bid bots.
And there is the real possibility of retaliatory downvotes - that really hurt.
"Free" downvotes don't address that.
We need to at least be able to pool/delegate downvotes in order to achieve anything measurable.
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Honestly I think this is true. I'd gladly delegate the downvote stake that @pifc has as it's a community account and retaliatory flags can hurt the community as a whole since we use the rewards to pay for leases and prizes. We barely cover the costs of the everything as it is and that is with donations from community members for most of our prizes. The loss of a couple weeks of rewards (or more) due to someone taking exception to a flag could mean the end of what we are doing.
That said our VP will not be used for flags except for plagiarism just as it has been since the account was started. Will be nice to do that without cost, but it won't change our flagging practices.
I agree
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steemit will die....thats what will happened
What is dead may never die.
Is that a GOT quote! Nice. Be well