I guess, on hive.blog downvotes are put in with the upvotes, but on peakd, they were separate.
I haven't uses ecency.
From what I have been told, the new treatment is that if the vote doesn't equal 1% of the payout it doesn't show.
Even if there were 100 downvotes as long as none reach 1% of the payout none will show.
I can only speak for myself, but this is a deal breaker for me.
As soon as a ui comes along that doesn't hide things from me I will jump ship.
Just as I jumped from hive.blog over the overwhelming ugliness of how they did communities.
Damn, that's absurd.
Do they still affect reputation score in Peakd?
Does rep score even matter any more?
Yes, exactly as they do on Ecency were those downvotes have always been added at the bottom of the vote list.
Such small downvotes are not going to affect reputation either way.
Upvotes are unaffected, downvotes are only affected in that the ui doesn't show them, they still count at the blockchain the same as before.
This is simply about silencing a few trolls.
Reputation never really mattered because all it measures is how much stake has voted for you.
This is very much a pay to play system unfortunately.
Depending on how fast you want to climb the ladder.
Many people pay nothing but their time and have done very well.
It just depends on if the large stakeholders support your content, or not.