I suppose that’s not very nice... I could say “downvoting for LAZY people” and that might be more accurate, but laziness is often suspiciously akin to stupidity-- so they both have a relative utility in this context. I'm sticking with it.

Anyone finding themselves getting a wee bit offended right now should probably stop and think seriously about what that means… but I’m talking about myself in this case. So calm down. I’m kidding, people!

I’ve personally been looking for a few easy, automated ways to do the best stuff for our platforms. And one thing I’ve been thinking about-- something most of you probably overlook as much as I do on these #Hive platforms-- is treating bad actors like the useless garbage receptacles they really are.

Ha! You laughed, didn’t you?! You’re a terrible person.
I’m kidding again, of course, on both counts...

I MEAN DOWNVOTING...

Downvoting is the opposite of upvoting. (Ugh… I didn’t think that would sound so stupid until I wrote it. If only there was some way of taking it back.) It is tokenomically deflationary and socially constructive. That may sound complicated at first glance, but it is two pretty basic concepts that are helping us out.

Here’s how it works: your downvote decreases the supply of tokens by effectively burning your vote-weight’s worth of them, and then it organically discourages similarly unpopular content in the future. The exact opposite happens with upvotes: they issue new tokens instead of burning them, and they encourage more good content.

So in this context, ironically, downvotes are GOOD and upvotes are BAD-- tokenomically speaking! As long as we are downvoting the right things (spam, farming, harassment and incitement) on a regular basis, the positive effects for the community as a whole are two-fold when we include the social benefits!

See? That’s what I mean by treating people like trash. (Happy sigh. It all makes sense now.) So let’s all untangle our knickers and move forward!

Ten Times a Day!

That’s how often we get to smite the spammers and scammers with our full strength. Scaled much like our upvote weight, we can choose to instead downvote 20 times a day at 50%, 40 times at 25% and so on… but that’s what we’re allotted.

This is my best calculation anyway, based on the official explanation. It sounds like ten full votes would use 80% of our downvote mana, which is recharged every day. Check out the screenshot below and please correct me if I'm wrong.

Whatever the number is, I'm guessing we don’t use close to it! Or I don’t, at least… not on a consistent enough basis to use anywhere near my daily threshold.

DOWNVOTE CURATION TRAILS?

So this is where my "dummy" approach is going to come in handy. I'm hoping one of you can point me toward at least one downvote curation trail that really does a good job of weeding out the undesirables on either #LeoFinance or #CTP.

I know there's a lot of overlap when it comes to the content here in the Hive ecosystem, but these are my two main #tribes and I would like to be as specifically effective as possible in this way.

So what do you think? Who's your favourite garbage disposal? Or do you like to do the dirty work yourself? Give me some details in the comments.