RE: Updates to Post Curation and Rewards + A Call for a Community Vote on Content Curation in the FreeCompliments Community
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I think of it like this... all of Hive is a broad community, with an ongoing consensus mechanism about what should be rewarded, and by how much. Most of the time content is middling to good, and attracts positive votes. Since nobody has strong objections, those votes carry and distribute a portion of the total rewards. The stake behind each vote is a weighting mechanism to balance all the relative reward value everything receives in each ongoing cycle.
Sometimes there are strong objections to something being rewarded, and downvotes appear. If there is strong consensus that the downvoter is wrong, the community can rally together to cancel out the downvotes, or apply moral suasion or other pressure to the downvoter to get them to withdraw. (This is basically what happened when Hive SBI itself was targeted a few years ago. The community rallied together and a powerful whale took notice and pressured the attackers to back off, even though they were not otherwise supportive of us.)
If there is no consensus that the downvoter is wrong, then the downvoter has an edge because their votes are less 'expensive' than upvotes.
While this community might vote to continue rewarding this content, hivewatchers will counter that you're only a small part of a larger community, and the consensus in the larger community is to support them in their anti-abuse efforts. It is unlikely they will respect your community's decision and back off if you vote to continue supporting what they call 'copy-pasta'.
This is definitely my expectation. However, I wanted to give the community an opportunity to express their thoughts and then to communicate the outcome with hivewatchers. The worst outcome is the expected one, so I believe there's nothing to lose with this community vote. I don't think I'd be doing my due diligence if I didn't give it a try.