On the Eleventh of August, the year of Season 6 of Game of Thrones, 2016, I hereby declare how I will vote:
- I will upvote posts and/or people I like.
- I will downvote the posts I find to be:
- Spam
- Plagurization
- Consistent hashtag spam
- Stalking
- Harassing
- Hateful, rage-fueled non-sense
- A net negative to our investment, Steemit
- I will not downvote posts and/or people that I disagree with
- I may even upvote posts I disagree with, because I respect the work put into it.
- I may even upvote content that lacked a lot of work, simply because I respect the creator and know their potential.
- I will likely ignore and mute users that I see abusing their down votes.
- I will not downvote their posts as retaliation.
- I will not judge people on a small sample, either. This is a new platform, and we are all working hard to see it succeed.
- If someone consistently downvotes a content creator because they dislike them or disagree with them, then I feel they aren't doing what's best for this site, and I don't want any part of that.
I want to see a diverse array of people use this site and not feel compelled to act a certain way in order to get upvotes or avoid downvotes.
I want to see civil discussion and open-mindedness, to go along with discovery and growth for each of us individually.
I feel that the way in which I will vote here on Steemit, will be a value-add approach for all of us.