RE: OPEN LETTER TO @WHALES: please be mindfull with your MASS-DOWNVOTES before it's to late
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I took my time to read most of the comments in this publication, but this only confirms to me what I was thinking about the HF.
This is the worst change that has been made here. As in any totalitarian regime they speak about control and improvements, but their design encourages the oppression by the stronger ones with all their capricious irresponsible decisions.
There are mad and disrespectful people everywhere, but the social systems may be arranged to stop their madness or to encourage it. The design of the last HF —with its happy downvoting feature and its disrespect to authors— is encouraging mad and unhealthy interactions.
The downvotes you received are simply an expression of shameless censorship. They carried their message very clearly: We are the masters, we decide which opinions are acceptable... and yours is not. Their love for dictatorship is evident.
They even didn't care about the good intentions and the good spirit of the reflections your brought. This is how they treat the best members of Steemit, the most respectful and dedicated authors. This is how they say that they don't care about the quality of our relations here.
They have the power... hence they don't care.
Dear @spirajn
Thank you for your great comment. I appreciate your time.
We're clearly on the same page here. I know that downvotes can (and are) being used by many large stake holders to make steemit a better place, but it's obvious that there is huge room for abuse and there is very little (or nothing) we can do to prevent that.
My goal was to point out the problem. Problem which really exist. I can even give another example: ulqu3 - he has been away from steemit for a longer while. Came back, posted something and used bidbots to boost his post to trending page. He got number of heavy downvotes, but noone bothered to tell him what did he do wrong. Not even one warning or explanation.
I already know several similar examples and it's not hard to imagine and understand, that many of those users will quit steemit. And that worries me.
Enjoy your weekend buddy,
Cheers, Piotr