I've been listening to SteemSpeak Radio and one of the talkers brought up that most of the trending topics have at least one flag.
And this is true. If we look at the trending posts. Most have a few flags. And I've run across downvoters before who have said that they are purposefully downvoting articles. One said it was to limit the amount of money others were making.
I don't know why anyone would want to purposefully downvote articles for no reason. Certainly there are legitimate reasons to downvote articles. Like if the article violates the T&C of steemit. But to just downvote articles for the sole reason of downvoting them is absurd.
How do we deal with the problem?
I have several ideas that could possibly work in order to deal with downtrolls.
- Set a time limit on when a person joins and when they can downvote. We could simply not show the downvote flag for members who newly join.
- We can base downvoting privileges on a users reputation score. Again not show the downvote flag until a person has a certain reputation.
- And lastly. Make the downvote cost steem power. If you want to downvote an article. It will cost you some steem power to do so.
So there you have it. I invite the community to comment upon the ideas. If you have a even better idea than the ones I have given please let us know. Hopefully we can come to a consensus on how we should move forward to and make steemit even better for all.
Thanks.