Well, I wrote above. Such a system exists on Blurt and works year after year, showing that it's working. You probably did not read what I wrote carefully.

I explain once again. Downvotes are like fighting weeds with herbicides. You may defeat the weeds and save 10-20% more time than with natural methods, but your food becomes toxic, and the soil dead, sterile and devoid of nutrients. Eating this food makes you sick and eventually you die prematurely from cancer or other nasty things.

And this is what Hive has become, although it had the potential for wider adoption and a place where interesting uncensored discussions take place, currently all the people who really think and write interesting content have fled because this or that whale with a higher stake started downvoting them for something they did not like. The rest, on the other hand, sit quietly and are afraid to speak freely so as not to attract attention and only drain the pool with boring posts that they write mainly for tokens, about neutral topics like photos of their breakfast.

On the other hand, those "politically correct" who always shout what the mainstream says so no one downvotes them, although no one "annoys them with their impudent thinking" are also really bored here because everyone just pats each other on the back and there are no sensible debates. So they fall into stagnation and go to FB to discuss, which paradoxically provides even more space for discussion than the "supposedly" decentralized,"supposedly" without censorship, Hive XD

No intelligent person wants to be here for any other reason than for tokens because the truth is that you can do it just as well on Facebook or Instagram to post photos of your breakfast and even make an influencer career on it where you can earn 100 x more than here, so why get familiar with some keys and complicated exchanges when you can also earn more on Insta and often more because there are bigger reach?

What most people were looking for here - an alternative - a space for free, unrestricted discussion, independent journalism and unrestricted blogging, is not here because there is no journalism without monetization reach, and there is no unrestricted discussion about how someone can destroy your profile if they don't like you just because they have more money.

There are also no reach because you see... although some are just spammers, what you don't understand here is that they are also potential recipients of the content. If someone is interested in a post simply, even if they were just posting AI-generated content for profit, they will join the discussion under the post, take part in a contest or buy an influencer's product, and at that moment they will give meaning to the existence of their channel and make the influencer stay with you longer and attract more people and more influencers.

A platform for wider adoption simply has to have room for all social groups even spammers, low effort content and plagiarists(authors should fight for their rights not the platforms). There is no room for them on hive so there is no space for grow.

Downvotes, in turn, create a toxic, hostile atmosphere of mutual surveillance, judgment and threat. It's like living in Communism, everything you say can be used as a pretext to call you a traitor to your beloved leader and destroy the profile you've been building for years