I don't like it. we could have downvote wars now
this is not good...but with a flag you don't lose any money
with a downvote you would, and could lose all of it...it would also mean that freedom of speech is in jepardy...if you were afraid to say something because it could get downvoted then you might not say it
you could end up as some soul less entity with nothing worthwhile to say
because if you said something someone, or the establishment didn't like you would be ostrasized...in the form of downvote
they have up and down voting on utube, but you don't lose any money from down votes
and when i see a down vote i always think it is from some idiot
not a valid thing.
Everyone is different and do and say things differently
some are so narrow minded they will fight you to make you feel wrong
and down voting in my opinion is doing that...in an ideal system it might be alright, but there are too many ones who will miss-use it. So I say: no
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I totally agree, if downvotes can be punitive this ship will sink faster than it already is.
"But with a flag you don't lose any money"
Not only do you lose anything earned on the post, you lose reputation points!
There are serial flagers out there with bots who have no problem flagging a post simply for who upvoted the post.
Why bother putting your creativity out there just to have it hidden and all value lost because you get an upvote from someone a whale is at war with and the whale attacks you?
How is a minnow ever going to get ahead? They can't. I guess they could creat 100's of accounts and up-vote themselves!
I know several content creators who are under constant attack
Do something about the abusers or it won't matter what you do.
As a minnow I don't know anything, so it's a shame that there isn't more information so I can be informed as to what is best. Here in the UK we voted for brexit, but now, after finding out that the government was telling us all lies we want to stay in the EU; if only there had been some proper information about it. Thanks for the warning...