My ultimate goal is to make myself redundant.
I interject myself into the meta-conversation when I feel there are no reasonable voices.
I am trying to identify reasonable voices and encourage them as much as I can.
The downvoting for differences of opinion is really out of hand, and freezepeach is the only account I know of that really tries to help people.
I've been in the casualty-care discord hosted by steemflagrewards and they seem to think that it's basically the wild west and if people are posting "low effort" (in their opinion) or "comment farming" (I don't even know what that is) or "self voting" (how is this a crime?) or perhaps they posted some quote or something and forgot an attribution link (should we cite sources for every meme?) or if you got upvoted by a bid-bot (I'm also not sure why this is a crime) or if you bad-mouth some powerful steemit-user (they are quick to use the word "libel" but aren't clear on the definition they prefer, or present actual evidence, or allow any semblance of a "fair-hearing" or a path-to-remediation, so once again, just their opinion I guess) then they say, f-that-guy they deserve downvotes.
I make what could easily be considered "low effort" posts. Why don't they downvote me? Enforcement seems to be arbitrarily capricious.
Should they downvote markymark for using Mark Wahlberg's pop-star name (impersonation)?
Should they downvote marymark for using a profile pic of Nathan Fillion and Firefly wallpaper without explicit permission from the copyright holders?
Who am I to say? I'm just some rando seeking logical coherence.
Should I cite my sources for proper attribution to honor the person who coined the term "rando"? I have no idea who that even is.
Is it spam for me to reply to a post with "Thank you for your contribution"? More than 10 times in-total?
Interesting side-note, they do consider burnposts to be "spam", but they don't downvote them because so many people band-wagon on for the huge curation rewards, their significant downvotes barely make a dent and so they just save them (downvotes) for smaller fish.
I don't expect to "get anything" from delegating to freezepeach except the satisfaction that they will heed the cries of the down-trodden.
If I could write a bot to scan for downvoted posts that I could actually do something about, and counter-vote them (after some cursory evaluation), I would do that, but I don't have the resources and I don't know who to ask for help (I already tried trufflepig).
Freezepeach seems pretty fair-minded and I'll keep an eye on what they're upvoting and if I find that my steem-power can be better deployed somewhere else, I'll undelegate (they don't seem to be particularly active, but perhaps they're just saving up the voting power for when it's needed most).
Also, I might have overstated my "delegate 100%", since freezepeach doesn't seem to be particularly active, I'll stick with my 777.777 delegation for the moment and keep the balance for my fractional upvotes for now.
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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