[SPS] Proposal for the agreement of the down-voting standards

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■ Proposal for the agreement of the down-voting standards

1. Overview

Down-voting activities have been increased after HF22 allowed free downvoting pools.
In STEEM blockchain, down-voting is a way of expressing negative opinions or disliking content, and can be used by anyone.
However, when there is no public consensus within the community on the standards of down-voting, down-voting can be perceived as a means of discrimination.
As one of the representatives for the South Korean Steem community, we take some down-voting cases very seriously because they are focusing on non-English postings, including Korean postings with unclear reasons.
These kinds of behaviors are not consistent with the #new-steem intent of "providing appropriate compensation for good content" or with the Steem blockchain ideology advocating censorless SNS.

Example 1: A post that has been down-voted due to the missing thumbnail image.
https://steempeak.com/kr/@jaydih/78plbz

Example 2: A post dealing with the loss of a friend, in sorrowful emotion, has been down-voted. It is very rude to down-vote a post with this type of content, rather than supporting a person that has lost someone close to them.
https://steempeak.com/zzan/@dodoim/24bfjn

Steem Blockchain is the space where members of different cultures and languages stay together.
If down-voting is a necessary means for a Steem-blockchain, we believe that the clear consensus among community members on the down-voting criteria is required. In addition, we think that down-voting activities beyond the agreed-upon criteria should be prohibited.
Based on this context, SCT community proposes the following down-voting criteria:

(1) Clear plagiarism
(2) Posting of personal attack against others
(3) Posting dissemination of false facts (fake news)
(4) Postings related to crime simulation and criminal activity
(5) Racist Posting

In addition to the down-voting criteria, we also propose implementing features that allow users to choose the reason for down-voting.

2. Implementation

Community developers can generate a reason-for-down-voting feature in PR and submit it to a public repository or submit a development proposal with the same content to the SPS.