Steem is censorship resistant and as I said in replies,
I agree.
...there are many front ends that do not even grey downvoted to oblivion posts
I haven't found one yet that shows posts from accounts with negative rep.
steempeak and busy.org show individual posts that are downvoted below zero pending payouts, but still hide posts from accounts with negative rep.
and, anyone can make another.
Well, not exactly "anyone". Do you happen to know of a good tutorial?
People seem to commonly call downvoting censorship...
Censorship is the suppression [NOT NECESSARILY THE ERASURE]of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient." WIKI
...when what they actually are doing is piggybacking another aspect of the blockchain onto their "claim". Earnings.
Look, nobody, and I mean nobody's earning lambo money on steemit.
Upvote rewards are negligible to non-existent for most people, and you can make way more "profit" by simply band-wagon-voting the top earners.
It was suggested to me by steemcleaners that declining rewards would mitigate downvotes.
I shared this suggestion with a few accounts that were getting heavily downvoted (for differences of opinion and not for "specific violations of community standards") and they reported that the downvoting continued without interruption and their rep was getting slaughtered.
So, no, it's not just greedy twits who are hungry for fractions of pennies.
Declining payouts does NOTHING to slow down the abusive downvotes.
Let me ask you,
Does it make sense to you to set a minimum payout above 0.001 steem?
Why?
Why steal scraps of dust from all the hopeful newbz and shovel that dust into the mouths of the top-earners (with pending payouts above the 20 steem reward curve sweet-spot)?
How does this seem "fair" to anyone?
What's the moral-theory?
ALSO, LOWERING THE MINIMUM PAYOUT TO 0.001 (would remove the financial incentive to downvote) AND FLATTENING THE CURATION REWARDS (NO MORE INCENTIVE BONUS FOR VOTING IN THE FIRST 5 MINUTES) WOULD GO A LONG WAY TO "FIXING" STEEMIT (are the band-wagon voters really "adding-value"?)
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Protesting without dialogue (with the sole intent to silence opposition) is harassment, not free speech.
I'm not a fan of ad hominem attacks, but I'm even less of a fan of censorship and retaliation.
Ad hominem attacks and air-horning your opponent are the tactics of FASCISM (dismantles open dialogue and civil debate).
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