In the same way one post is now rewarded for receiving up votes, one post could be "rewarded" negative payout if it is flagged more than voted.
I am bringing here to discussion some of the things that could be changed in the Steemit platform to create this.
We have now the "hot" and the "trending" menus. Steemit developers could add the "worst", "bad" or the “list of shame" (maybe not right in the main menu). This menu will list the top flagged posts.
Each user will have one STEEM Power Negative Balance and SBD Negative Balance in the wallet too. If one posts has negative balance, this will be added to negative balance from the user wallet.
For one bad post, the user will accumulate negative earnings that will be reduced only by future earnings or if the user will pay to cancel them.
All the future earnings will be added based on the formula:
Balance = Earnings + Negative Balance
Users will be able to pay for that negative balance to be zero.
Only users with zero negative balance will be able to withdraw STEEM or SBD!
This negative balance will appear only after the first 30 days after the account registration because we must give some time to new users to learn that the quality of their posts is important and that posting bad content could produce costs!
This could bring one major quality increase and will help us have one clean platform and get rid fast of the people spamming and posting bad content.
What do you think?