Hive as an Information carrier should be the ultimate goal.
Neutral.
Some people complain about censorship. Yes, it happens because of Blacklists ( that all front ends collective use) but besides the problem of that,
there is another one with a heavyweight.
Up and downvotes are in general a bad idea on the Information carrier layer. This layer needs to be as neutral as possible.
In general, from a codebase it is.
But not from a user experience viewpoint.
It's like some developer builds a way and the users use another one.
The user is always right. I know some people on hive disagree because they are thinking they will be always right.
But in the end, the user is always right.
If the users want something, they deserve to get it or they will move.
It's that simple.
To the core problem of "Viewpoint discrimination". What i have noticed, is some people are dont agree with others in viewpoints and use downvotes.
That would be semi ok, if it would not be on the Information carrier level. Because this is against Free speech.
People are hiding their true viewpoint to not be downvoted or labeled as "flat earther" with consequences to the future.
There must be a pro-free speech solution for it. POB already failed, as we can see of reward distribution over the last 12 months +
Autovotes destroyed it. Super Whales with a high % influence of rewards don't help, because some of them work in a short-term view and not in a long-term view of the platform.
The best thing would be to remove all rewards in Hive 100% from the content as soon as there is a working Layer 2 solution ( not hive engine).
This would it make also it easier to play the hive game without the politically rewarding game.
It would remove the"Viewpoint discrimination" in terms of rewarding the right view.
And it would make the overall hive a way better platform.
Hive as gas token, thats it. Or mana token if you will it call it like this.
And sure as a voting token for DAO and witnesses.
But no fancy shit content rewarding.
No people complain about like a "meme".
100% neutral content. No collective damage of some people to the platform that wants to enforce their worldview or view of how the platform should work.
And layer 2 can do what layer 2 wants. It can spread hate, censor, or play internet police.
But the best thing would be the competition on layer 2 sites. Only the best would win and the others die. This means all that negative points would die sooner or later, because every platform that acts against the user, will lose the user.
For now, hive can handle the damage of this.
But to really grow to the next level it needs a drastic change.
( not touching scalability points, it's also something needed in a long run and not tomorrow).
Anyway, some thoughts about it.
