RE: Promoting The Upvote Culture
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Personally, I tend to only focus on content I find has value (to me) and then I'll upvote it. On the rare occasion I flag something, it's blatant spam or plagiarism.
On the whole... I guess I both agree and disagree with you.
I agree on the idea that we should focus on highlighting the good... and that's my strategy. My downvote status is nearly always at 100%.
On the other hand, I also feel that many of our woes can be traced back to a "collective" marketing strategy of pitching Steem-based venues as income opportunities, rather than investment opportunities or places to public content.
Why is that "bad?"
Because of the mindset of who's predominantly attracted to that mindset. If the focus is on "make money," then the quality of what people bring to the table will take a back seat to the efficacy of that content to simply generate dollars, independently of whether it's worth anything.
Can the two co-exist? Absolutely!
But we keep talking about wanting Steem (the token) to break out of its slump, but that's gonna be tough because people expecting to make money will be token sellers rather than token holders, so we end up pricing ourselves down...
Oh I completely hear you on that...And when there is 'income' potential, the abuse starts to appear.
I think alot of that got weeded out with the hardforks, resource credits and Steem price. But what happens when we hit $1 again....Vicious cycle. That's where I see a big use case for downvotes. The blatant abuse of the rewards pool.