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My comment was directed to steemit.inc not the author.
We have many good authors and artists on platform.
My experience so far is that the more famous author the fastest he or she leaves. And until now I didn't see any of them to buy a single steem. All freebies.
Somehow I would expect from a prominent person like you to properly use a downvote.
Disagreement with one's stance shouldn't be the reason for downvote.
I have no time or will to discuss any further so you don't bother answering.

I understand and agree with the first part. It was my first instinct to write that question too. Hence why I upvoted your most recent post at the same time as I had no intention or desire to affect rewards.

There aren't really any "proper" way to downvote. But imo one way that should be more normalized is to simply be active in expressing one's opinion on the order in which both content and comments should be sorted. That is the idea of proof of brain that I've got and that was most often communicated by STINC and Ned when I got here (although that idea seems rather lost these days).

Anyways, I know you don't want a discussion, but I would be curious to hear if you do believe Downvotes can or will ever be less stigmatized with HF21, and used in the way I described without it just causing frustration?

My comment was directed to steemit.inc not the author.
We have many good authors and artists on platform.
My experience so far is that the more famous author the fastest he or she leaves. And until now I didn't see any of them to buy a single steem. All freebies.
Somehow I would expect from a prominent person like you to properly use a downvote.
Disagreement with one's stance shouldn't be the reason for downvote.
I have no time or will to discuss any further so you don't bother answering.

It was just a simple question and eight other people with upvoting are asking the same.
I personally have no problems with someone downvoting my post or comment.
Who we are to judge.
But after HF21 with free downvotes, I'm expecting a big mess.
,,Pay me 5 steem and I'll downvote your enemies'' kind of mess.