Well maybe now you would. Maybe now when you see something you don't like, either because it's getting to much reward, or because you don't think it should be rewarded at, all, then you can do something about it without sacrificing your votes. I know, most people will respond with "if you don't like it then move along" but that is exactly why we have flags, not to step around the feces but to do something about it. Being silent about it or ignoring it will only send the message that feces is fine. I see these new changes as wholy essential, and wonder how we lasted so long this far. For one, the curve was overpowering but it was essentially because it made splitting your stake up a very very poor choice (@edicted still thinks that the curve encourages stake splitting and sybil attacks, talk about Giant Facepalm). With the curve two things can happen: first calculating the ROI from delegations on bidbots becomes very difficult if not impossible since the factor of what order the delegations come in messes what otherwise is a simple function, and next, delegations to things that don't worry or work on returning revenue will be empowered by the stake concentration/curve, so that for example combating abuse with steem flag rewards becomes more effective and this comes into play even more with the free downvotes and at the same time the freezepeach account can also more effectively be used to heal content that was flagged. What I am interested in is if we can delegate our free downvotes to such projects, as that would endlessly empower the community to fight all kinds of abuse.

I have DV most recently the troll fag @kawiicrush and before that the idiot @funtimebobby52. I don't have a problem with downvotes/flags, to me these things are essential in aligning incentives, without the threat of dv I really think that this place would not exit, it would have fizzled out after the self voting was so pervasive that the vast majority was doing it.

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