Improving positive vibes in Steemit will bode well for the platform. Flare outs from downvotes is just another reason to drive Steemians away. Although many more accounts are being in Steemit, usage and retention over a period of time seems to be declining.

This is a great proposal and hopefully, they take it into consideration given that Steemit growth is fast but how about retention.

yaa, I never downvote...I always think positive because if anybody doing the least effort in posting anything for a reward, atleast some energy is put into use instead of watching tv or doing something that has no use like being a couch potato...steemit is becoming in some way an information platform where you can find someone else's points of views in the comment section

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Well presented, but I have a feeling that nothing will come of it. For as long as the top earners are hungry for huge earnings, they have no incentive to make any changes.
We can see that among animals altruism is a positive force, contributing to their survival, but we don't WANT to see it also applies to us.

As for downflagging, you did not address certain problems with flagging does help us limit. For instance, plagiarism and scamming.

To me, scamming is not as much of a problem as I never reply to them so it seems not many hit on me. Sometimes, if I have a feel this person is acting out of ignorance, I'll spend time on them, without rewarding them. I end up feeling good when they learn and try to improve.

However, what if the owner of the post were to havethe right to delete any comments they do not like. The person deleted should not have the ability to return to that post for at least seven days. However, the deletion should be the only discipline, no flagging, no loss of income.
As for plagiarism. It should be reported to a group of volunteers and only the approved group be allowed to remove income (fully or partly, at their discretion). Those punished in this way must have the right of appeal - for instance, when the plagiarism is from an article the poster wrote originally.

Anyway, good luck and thanks for caring enough to try and find a solution.

I send you positivity by upvoting :P

It also safe to add function that distribute a daily reward upon login since we all know that a minnow and redfish level is hard to earn a single dollar posting. Let say 1 sbd a day taken from the reward pool. This function will retain user to stay and motivated to do great things.

Really, I see no point in downvoting someone's post? What good, as you mention, does this do for the steemit community, as a whole? Nothing- this only does harm and we are here to promote the platform, not downgrade what we are ultimately trying to build upon. 

Thanks for your post, this is a nice piece of shilling for the steemit community to learn from, and hopefully we will see less and less of these malicious downvotes as the word spreads. 

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I Agree with your post thank you for sharing to all of us! The downvote feature it's two blade sword.

I've never downvoted and I wouldn't downvote a post just because I don't like it, I would just ignore it.
But I think there needs to be something for emergency cases. Like: I don't want pedopornography pictures in here, for example. How would you hide something like this without a negative vote?

I don't think anyone would do this, but there may be a few dangerous, scamming or anyways very bad posts, so I wouldn't remove the flag button

I like post

thank you for sharing this very useful information for me and others

thank you for sharing, indeed the reality that we see in steemit as @sandalphon convey, there is a good platform and got good value posting no one votes, on the thing they have seen and enjoy it, and mocking have someone else when it's a work, very nice enlightenment this friend, if possible, @jhoni will restem now continue.

Very good post

I will tend to agree with much of the sentiment expressed here. But still reserving judgement on whether to completely get rid of the downvote. I think the platform should take a long serious look at this and maybe do a bit of research into other ways to penalize or discourage posting and conduct that currently may truly warrant a downvote. 

It turns out also that downvoting has not proven too successful at curbing some of the abuse where it would have legitimate uses for. Limiting posts seems to be almost something to look into even if downvoting was retained. 

And downvoting could also be programmed to use some ratio of the same amount of power of an upvote, so that negativite penalty does not carry the same weight as positive reinforcement.

I beleive this is a great academic solutions. To remove the flags/downvotes may be a good start. I love reading these opinions

Downvoting was, is, and will never be a solution. It creates divisions.

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well said! i also don't like the down voting part.. i wish it wasn't there

I've been on Steemit three weeks now and what's really fucking annoying me (apologies for the strong language) is the amount of crap people post here in the hope of a few penny "clicks".

I saw a picture of a sheep earlier, with a description of what a bloody sheep is; really!?

Steemit needs three things:
1) Moderation
2) A minimum word count
3) Soft ban for reposting other peoples work or obviously spam/shit-posting.

I'll continue to down vote spam, rewards should come from quality posting (such as this article).

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I agree with you that downvoting other people's posts is harmful to one's ego and can actually deter valuable Steemians from posting their thoughts or opinions again. Lately, I have seen mostly attacks on Steemians that have been deemed to be spammers or scammers based upon what they chose to promote to their followers. I think this is an effort to deter them from posting but I am not sure I agree with the way that this has been handled. Is there a way to warn them that their actions are not permitted on Steem rather than treat them harshly? I am fairly new here so I don't know. 
I don't think that there should be a limit to how much an individual user may be paid out daily because I feel that could push some users away from the platform. But, your ideas on changing the payout scale could be a viable option in my mind. I agree that positivity needs to be spread more in this world and commend you for writing a post such as this. Looking forward to reading more from you!- Ivy

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Interesting idea. I have not had to suffer any negative flagging or feedback fortunately.. but for a system that doesn't have any automatic moderation, the community should be able to flag something that doesn't abide by the community terms.. like  incorrectly labeled NSFW or something damaging to the community just by the very content they promote - hate, violence, harmful power over others in devious ways, etc. I like that maybe downvotes should go, but not flagging terrible content that shouldn't really be in a community building platform. To be honest though, I didin't know you could downvote. 

What I do agree and hope happens is the auto distribution changes of rewards to smaller creators, like a tax system on larger resources so funds distribute evenly around the system to good content creators, even if with less following. Viral content, even if worse quality than a smaller creator, can technically still earn more just by the sheer momentum of followers - which is ok.. but hard to compete with, so less followers = higher rewards to any attention, thus as you point out, may be more equititive. But it's a fine line, you can't "penalize" the income of high quality and popular creators with viral content.. but the 30/70% might be a nice balance for that. A very fine balance.