Another comment I want to promote and get rewarded. 100% of the total STEEM, SP and SBD will be transferred to @reddust after payout.
P.S. I have long wanted resteem to work for comments... probably not viable, but it would help get comments more visible. I sometimes like a comment more than I do a post.
What about a comment tab? That is obvious to many people as a very efficient way to allow us to get access to comments.
From @reddust:
I don't mind market ups and downs reducing payouts but downvoting from anyone that reduces payout because they think the post isn't deserving is wrong. It demoralizes content creators and shuts people like me up because I often question consensus, now I feel speaking out against authority here is going to impact my payout and I'm going try and stay with what is agreed on as PC material. People upvoted on a post and downvoting takes away upvoters powers and reduces curation payouts and it doesn't cost the down voter anything.
This is why FB does not have dislikes, Because people can ruin someone for the hell it, a disagreement of view or a grudge. You could have 400 upvotes and a whale totally reduces the rights of the up-voters. Or a weighted stakeholder disagrees with an ideology or a trend that is important to a group of people can be disapeared by one downvote. So basically whales or stakeholders are the moderators of payout, rather than the upvote judging someone's talent, quality of content, or trend. A downvote is highly subjective just like an upvote, but down vote from a weighted stake holder reduces the payout so much, this does not sound like a free market, one person could have a bad day and ruin a person or group of people's view of Steemit.
Decouple downvote from payout.
The flag is detrimental to an actual social media or social networking site unless it is used responsibly for specific reasons that improve the site, such as plagiarism, spam, etc. When a concentrated group of people decide who can and can't get rewarded, this is highly deleterious to the success of the social networking and social atmosphere of a platform. The concentration of power is the root of the problem.
Solutions? Sure there are. Delegate power to the community, not a concentrated group of people. Invest into SP to see the value of STEEM increase, not because you want to control things with all your power. Let the community decide how to reward people, not 1, 2, 3,... or 50 users who have the concentration of power.
The flag for rewards "could", "maybe" be better if it's the actual community that judges, not a concentrated group of people who decide who can and can't get rewarded. But I still don't see it as a positive when anyone can just do it. There are other solution for flagging, like only letting certain users who are active, and have shown they post/comment as part of community, and only allowing them to have the power to flag. But not basing it on SP alone in an account through sock puppets. Only real users in the community could use the flag because they are part of the community. Or a flag report button instead for issues with posts rewards, or plagiarism, one thing or all things for flagging. There are options. Let's be imaginative and think of better ways to have the flag on the platform so that it is more a positive than a negative.