"New" Downvote Project

Hello to my fellow Hivians!

So I have spent a lot of time recently on understanding downvoting to the best or my ability. A lot of my understanding today comes from feedback from other users.

The main issue I have with downvoting is it takes up way too much of my time.

Rather than getting into the weeds of how I feel about downvotes and how I think they should be used, I am going to explain my new project at a high level and why I am doing it.

First, I want to call out the fact that I am calling it a project. Most projects on HIVE tend to be technical in the sense that there is coding and development work in an IT sense. In my case, my projects rarely include these features, I have done some minor coding in the past but it is not something I am particularly good at. I can understand why people who do coding enjoy it, but right now at this point in my life it is not a skill I have refined.

Second, I would like to talk about the "why?" I am doing this project. I have a limited amount of bandwidth. I do not want to talk to people about downvotes for most of my time on HIVE. I do not want most of my posts on HIVE to be about downvotes. However, it is important, to some extent, I make posts about what I have been doing on HIVE. I think making a blog post so I can talk about what I am doing and people can leave feedback is a really cool thing about HIVE. Each one of my posts is almost like an AMA based on the topic set forth in the post. This is super valuable in my opinion.

I want to spend more time on my TradFi community and I want to spend more time curating. I currently have 2 manual curation projects @tradfi-curator and @gaming-curator. I also curate with my main account. I cannot do all these things and downvote while talking to people about downvotes.

This project will be similar to my @antiabuse1 project. Making accounts is very easy when you have a "decent" amount of HP because you can use RC to get more account tickets. I ended up making 22 antiabuse accounts but most of them did not get used.

I did not like the antiabuse project because the curators were anonymous. Getting downvoted by someone who is anonymous created a situation where I could not speak to why someone was being downvoted.

I also did not like the antiabuse project because there was no form of compensation for the curators. I think it is unreasonable to expect people to do this stuff for free.

This new downvoting project will be similar to antiabuse in the sense that it will curate content. I believe I should get compensated for my HP with curation rewards and I believe the people who actually do the downvoting should get compensated with curation rewards.

This project will be different because I want a place (in the form of a blog post) where people can go to contest their downvote. I also think it will be different because I hope that other people that are not involved in anyway will come and provide feedback as well.

Having a blog post where people can come to handle their downvote disputes on chain has pros and cons.

Pros:

1. It will be educational.
2. It will be transparent if the disputes are being handled on chain.
3. Other people can come to lobby for their friends about the downvotes in question.
4. People can lobby for their downvote to be reviewed somewhere else besides the comments section on their blog (leaving a comment when downvoting has a huge con because it has the potential to turn the person's blog into a discussion about downvotes).

Cons:

1. It will attract other people who downvote. If a person successfully lobbies for a downvote to be removed by the downvote curators, there is increased risk another stakeholder will see this dispute and disagree with the resolution. These stakeholders might then start downvoting that person.
2. The comment section might get so big it is hard to follow.
3. People may come here to share things they think should be downvoted.
4. If people "loose their cool" during the dispute process they cannot delete what they said (this is one of the benefits of downvoting disputes being handled in discord. I only handle downvote disputes on chain but discord does have a pro in this regard).

My project has other cons but they are mostly financial. People will be earning something by providing this "work." I will get less curation rewards as a biproduct of this.

There are lots of details that still need to be worked out. I am thinking through these things and will be open to feedback:

1. How much should someone get paid to work on something like this?
2. What type of content is it "ok" to curate? (Will this account curate user content? Will it curate burn posts? Will it curate HBD Stabilizer comments? Will the curation be a hybrid of the other 3 mentioned?)
3. What proposals should this project support? (Should it support no proposals? Should it support the return proposal? Should it support HW proposal?

Regardless how this project works out, I will still downvote from time to time using my main account; I just don't want downvoting to be the main thing I do.

Regardless how this project works out, I will not make a DHF proposal for this "project" to get paid by the DHF. I personally support HW proposal but I do not want the responsibility that comes with being paid through the DHF.

Thank you to everyone who has provided so much feedback about downvotes. It has really helped me understand downvotes a lot better.

I will continue to refine the ideas above in the comments below. If people provide feedback, it is usually helpful so I do appreciate it.

Cheers!
Hurt