I am worried about the future of Steem. This ability to downvote others I think will be a problem for new whales to adopt the platform. One benefit of places like twitter, FB and Insta have is the ability to shield yourself from users you don't want to play with. I think to myself.. What if all the celebrities on twitter couldn't block each other. But instead use their money and power of bots to battle. I know what would happen. No one would use twitter.
I have learned from past use of social media platforms that people do not get along. If you base a crypto / social media platform on the grounds that users with the most money decide what will be seen and who will make money. This is just another form of centralization. Controlled by the whom has the the most SP. I see it eventually becoming an exclusive group of whales in their safe space. Only further crippling the value of Steem. What brings the value to steem is users wanting to use it.
I have ideas to make Steem a better place for everyone to play but who's listening? No one.. People are more worried building onto what is. Rather than what will make it more adoptable. We are trying to figure out how to run before we perfected walking straight. I cant think of another social platform that someone left as a direct result of another individuals opinion. Can you?
-Ash
