I'm not denying anything, I just have a slightly less limited point of view.

There are many ways to fight plagiarism that are not as harmful as downvotes. I could give you a whole list of such solutions for hive, the problem is that no one will introduce them because since I've been on steem and hive since 2018, they have been brought up hundreds of times, the problem is that no one in power wanted to introduce them because they are afraid of the consequences, which are losing the position of a top witness and easy money from running a node;]

On the other hand, when it comes to "spam", it's a subjective thing, what is spam and what is not. I don't know why you waste your time in life on such nonsense. I have never understood the mentality of people who try to control such things. In a well-built system, it regulates itself and you can clearly see it on Blurt. Spam posts usually barely earn anything because no one wants to read, watch or upvote them, and frontends block and mark such people as spammers, blocking the possibility of voting for such things. If someone wants to, they can, of course, but they have an uphill battle and usually DON'T want to because of that:P On the other hand, if someone buys a stake on the stock exchange and upvotes themselves, what's the point?

They have about 24% return on investment - transaction commissions, so it's basically the same as if they took and bought hbd on your hive and put 20% on it. So why the hell should someone waste their life chasing spammers, voting circles and other nonsense?

Do you see a system based on Censor mentality like this one here is a perversion. A snake that eats its own tail. Downvotes are maybe 10% used to combat spam and abuse, because as I wrote earlier, voting circles are basically not worth it for you because it's better to keep hbd for prosecuting plagiarism and theft, there are appropriate institutions in every country and authors should claim their rights themselves, not some arbitrary and whimsical behavior of some "self-proclaimed wathers"

90% of downvotes are mutual fighting between different factions in order to control the rate and market and centralize power. And also simply to express ordinary hatred, envy, revenge or malice and persecution.

Even if half of the posts were spam and you had to pay all these scammers, the platform still suffers greater losses due to the damage caused by downvoting because innocent people suffer, you alienate good, honest authors and generally create a toxic atmosphere worse than on strongly centralized and censored platforms such as FB. At the same time, you don't even have a fraction of what Facebook has to offer ;]

You are killing your platform and making it resistant to greater adoption, and basically, looking at the stock market charts, it is dying. Nobody simply wants to buy it, apart from the scumbags who like to play gods and screw other people according to their whims, Satanists and Witness buddies who can enjoy protection.

You don't have to look far. I am writing a lengthy article here expressing my own opinion and observations that an intelligent person would treat as valuable content because even if I disagree with you and generally throw dogs at the network, I am doing it in a constructive way, full of commitment and with the hope that one day someone might wise up here and do something about this mess. But no one will reward me for this, I only get downvotes. Am I a spammer? No not really, I was a loyal hive user 3 years ago who brought many people here and promoted the network and also regularly participated. Is what I write plagiarism? absolutely not. I guarantee you that you will not find any content that is on my blog anywhere else. Do I allow abuse? NO I am simply expressing my opinion :P Despite this, a few years ago wathers got mad at me and downvoted every post of mine regardless of whether it was a photo or a post about what I did in my free time, because I wrote incorrectly political things about the plandemic :P

And that's how it works so sorry man don't give me crap about spam because every month 3-4 such people come to Blurt who run away from you for the same reason and then I see their content and it's not spam.