The Daily Downvote is an effort to help curb abuse & misuse within the steemit platform. It's rather simple. Since there is a potential to earn real money on steemit, many people are intrigued and attempt to make a quick payday... often at any cost. Some of them will, while others will not. It's all a part of the beauty and attraction of steemit.
However, when people post content that is deceptive, plagiarized, spam or otherwise lacks any honest effort to create a contribution to the steemit community, it takes away from the overall experience. It prevents genuine, high-quality and original content from being seen. It also entices others to follow suit. This greatly diminishes steemit as a whole. It robs us all of usability and detracts from the quantifiable value that steemit holds.
Do you think this makes Kenny Powers happy???? No, it makes him want to punch people in the face!
The Daily Downvote is one of my personal contributions to help steemit perform at its best, and reach its full potential.
Each day, or every other day - or whenever I have the spare time to kill - I'll be posting a short list of users and/or posts that I have downvoted (flagged). What I'd like to see happen is that YOU will also go and downvote these posts. This helps to discourage abuse and prevents others from accidentally voting on something that is spam, scam, plagiarized, etc.
I assure you that I do my research. Anything I have downvoted has been crosschecked - I wouldn't post it here if I wasn't 100% sure. I want this to be based on trust.
I am not here to downvote things I don't like or disagree with, so please don't assume this is about judgement or the policing of steemit. I am an enormous advocate of freedom of choice/speech/action. I simply want to do my part to reduce abuse so we can all enjoy a content rich experience.
This will be my first posting of The Daily Downvote, with just a few examples to get started. Please, get out there and downvote these! I'd also expect some of you whales to understand the philosophy behind this and why it's important - so please get out there, you big fat whales. Help us optimize the Blockchain!
The Daily Downvote
Today's Top Offenders:
@monattalent
Everything this user posts is 100% stolen content from trendhunter.com. Anything & everything they post is fair game for a downvote. Don't believe me? Copy & paste any one of their posts into google and hit search.
@dots
Everything this user posts... Well, the only thing this user posts is....... Just check it out for yourself! Don't forget to downvote the posts.
@jackgallenhall
This guy is a scammer in many things; even posting stolen images as his own photography. Here's an example of one of his posts where he claims everything was shot with his "Sony Cybershot". Unfortunately, a quick reverse image search proved otherwise - they are all stolen photos. Even his pet "Gold Eagle", which can be seen here, for sale 2 years ago on a birds of prey website.
... and 2 more posts from random users that are blatant spam
Random Spam Post #1
Random Spam Post #2
This is a serious effort and I need your help to make my efforts effective. This is just ONE of many things you can contribute to steemit if you're serious about its value.
Get out there and DOWNVOTE!
If you have any questions, concerns or comments, please leave them below. I'm glad to discuss this and am open to any & all feedback.