I think my biggest thing with downvotes is the fact that there is no context behind them.  It would be cool if there were some kind of drop down associated with a downvote so you at least get an idea of why you were downvoted.  "don't agree with rewards", "your content is awful", "I'm just in a bad mood today", "I prefer dogs over cats".  I know it will never happen, but I think a lot of people could use the constructive criticism to make their blogs better versus just a blank downvote.  That's just my opinion though.

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Having not been using peakd that much just to check my activity and claim my hbd. I don't notice this at all but it very important  to know that each community do what actually benefit their users

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We can literally build it how we see fit here...I cannot even begin to explain how remarkable that is. The independence of these apps to make these kind of changes is one of the compelling stories on Hive

I don't believe I have ever downvotes a post.  Regardless if they deserved it or not, it does not build a positive morale and I tend to think it is a waste of time.   I was downvoted once or twice and have ignored it, as it can lead to HP wars and never has a good outcome.   Changes I have seen here are generally good from what I can tell. 

This is something I've been saying all front-ends should implement.

External facing content is the content which has the highest value.

But someone simply reading a piece of content from outside the community (such as clicking a link via Google) doesn't understand the intricacies of *HIVE reward disagreements*.

They just see downvotes and think that the post must be untrustworthy spam.

Removing the broken hearts and just showing an aggregated number on front-ends is the best outcome.

Like you said, it's all there on the blockchain for anyone that wants to dig deeper.

Just don't put it in front of everyone's faces.

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Greetings @tarazkp

Firstly I want to commend you for the great observation as regards to the UI/UX on Peakd. I also observed similar changes too but I thought it was just a normal thing due to developmental changes.

> However, while the downvotes from some accounts are hidden from view, this doesn't stop the downvote from happening at the blockchain level and if these "x" accounts had HIVE POWER behind them, they would still be removing value.

I think some users do make use of Hive.blog whenever they intend to downvote spammed/plagiarised content. Also, hive.blog still shows the users responsible for your downvote unlike the new system Peakd adopted.


> The development of the blockchain capabilities to attract, house and enable varied
business models to quickly build, scale and be successful on the second layer is of paramount importance, because when that lightning strike of shifting consumer sentiment happens, the blockchain has to be aligned and ready to take that energy and turn it into value.

I strongly agree with your point here! The blockchain itself must be able to adopt new technological changes and development. There's definitely still more to come in future and this is why we must ensure blockchain elasticity to enable changes or adjustments as time goes on.

Thanks for sharing this great post with love from @hardaeborla and I hope you have a great day ahead 💞❤️💞

Happy to see changes like this everyday, speaking honestly I want to add value in a major way to this block chain even if the payment I get for a whole month is $300. I will be happy that I tried to make this place a better place. Give is healing the world and I want to be part of those who heal it too.
# 🙂

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I saw this change and I saw edicted talk about it a few days ago. Does it only block certain accounts from showing up on the list or does it cut off anyone with too small of a vote value? I was under the assumption it was the small value instead but I could be wrong.

I hope LeoFinance implements something similar because it's kind of annoying to see those downvotes with almost no value.

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I have found the feeds that Ecency provides interesting.  CONTROVERSIAL shows the most upvoted/downvoted content in ratio. RISING shows content with the most comments within a selected period. Gives us options for a different way to view feeds.
Thank you for using your downvote power where it is necessary. 

if Peakd created a blacklist of downvoting accounts to block them on their interface, why we have this downvotes option on this platform, for example if someone receive downvote 
it will deduct from his account balance?

> Of course, the people who complain about "censorship" are actually complaining about earnings. These are two very different things.

While this looks to have been the case as far as I can tell (not that I pay that close attention but sometimes things just enter my attention whether I want them to or not XD) I also know of some people who consider it censorship because a post getting downvoted enough (or muted out of a community) makes it "disappear" on the two interfaces that I'm vaguely familiar with (it's still there and usually requires an extra click).

<sub>slight tangent: I haven't looked recently but I'm really hoping that there was a workaround that could be implemented for posts that got muted out of a community for not being a good fit for that community but are otherwise good posts, as those got "hidden" on the user's blog as well and all the images stripped out which I thought was freaking terrible</sub>

Was there a time gap in your screenies or does Leofinance count/filter comments in an interesting way?

Good Morning,

I didn’t know this and it’s useful to know. I often promote Hive articles on Twitter, and sometimes I regret that the articles may have downvotes on them, which might give people the wrong impression. I will remember and use Peakd url links, so people who are new to Hive will trust the articles I am reposting on Twitter.

As a side note, I hope you are well, and the situation south of you doesn’t cause you to much mental anguish. Although I think I would be a bit anguished, those who live next to such a neighbor probably grow use to it, and prepare for it.

Few days ago I read that peakd hides the downvotes shown on a post. Then, I thought why they need such thing if downvote is a part of this blockchain. As I have said before, I see downvoting as a drawback of this great blockchain as long aa it is used arbitrary. 

As regards xaccount, I read that they have been created as a reaction since the big part of HIVE tokens generated on the blockchain are distributed mostly among whales. However, they downvote even minnows, which is sarcastic.

It is good for Hive to make its users valuable to themselves, so for account holders،they should develop  platform by contributing and building right economy not based on exploitation and overthrow. Collaboration among members and community is a major hallmark of success