RE: Liquified risk and reward
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Taraz: first of all I am confident that you and I personally understand each other, and we both understand that we both have the best interest of the platform in mind. With that out of the way, I must express my congratulations to you on your persistence and your trust on hive for the long term (for better or for worse :))
With that introduction; I have the following concerns;
meaning that if they do vote it highly, it is going to get downvoted also - in this case, to zero.
You are very aware that I use downvote. Now, if this thing catches on, I will have to do that more. Although most of us with average intelligence, understands, that downvotes are necessary, but few likes to get it. Few appreciate others who downvotes. As I know this well, that it will be hard for me to win a popularity contest. I am concerned therefore, as this tool will be used for abuse, it might cause more division within our already divided community. Let me know how you see it.
There is a difference between powering down and selling and abuse. I think that people should power up (as you probably realize), but they have to want to do it. Having it go to liquids isn't actually an issue as those who are going to sell, as re going to sell anyway.
As for the abuse of the system, I agree - downvoting isn't popular and it should be used more. But, it isn't really getting used by most now as most people don't want to commit to targets, or spend their time looking for them. No one likes getting downvoted, but that is the platform design we have. I hear Blurt doesn't have downvotes - looks like Steem trending - same people even.
I don't think that it will cause much more division, unless people make a big drama over it, as most tend to do over any change to the system, whether at the blockchain or 2nd layer. As I said, at least I have suggested a curation slider well back over 2 years ago, so the author can choose. This probably would have been somewhat of a combat against bidbots as well (this was prior to the EIP).