Stick A Fork In IT!

So we stuck the fork in and are on the other side. The first thing I noticed was that a lot of the people I follow grabbed their pitchforks and headed over to the trending page to start downvoting content that they felt didn't deserve the rewards they received.

I was afraid of this and these folks have taken upon themselves to be the moral judges of what is good and bad. This is a very dangerous thing because when you combine rewards and human nature you will always get disaster.

Now in their defense they honestly believe they are downvoting content because bid bots were used to rape the rewards pool. That is indeed a problem but solving this with advent of a downvoting pool won't work as intended and will launch holy wars like we havent seen here before.

Tribes will muddle this even worse because the new photography tribe which encourages the posting of photos and rewards them with the photo token will be misconstrued on steemit feeds as thin content and will get downvoted at times.

My contention has always been that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and pinterest among others have spend now more than a decade training people to create, consume and share "thin" content and that is what social media has become. Downvoting this type of content will chase people away when onboarding becomes easier and we want new members to flood the ecosystem and push up the price of steem.

An instagram influencer with 2 millions followers who only posts pictures of her shoes will head for the hills if we don't embrace our decentraized decree and downvote her content.

I get why we have the new feature and if people want to downvote people for using bots so be it. But decided what is and what is not good content on accounts who do not buy rewards is a recipe for disaster.

Money + Human Nature = Disaster

So lets use our heads on this one