So finally I will comment the post:
You may think that "ugh the downvoter is the bad guy, he should just let it be if account #1 doesn't care that account #2 is "stealing" their returns", but there's more to it than just that.
Once I read someone writing why people don't question a good upvote? only downvote? I think it was you that wrote? If not perhaps you think about this as well... When that question was important to read and I learned a lot about it. Downvotes are part of the ecosystem, you can see @smooth strategy of trying to equalize rewards in any post that achieves a huge amount of reward. Downvotes can be used to say that you are doing a bad thing, but also it is just a fair equalization.Two years ago I started receiving DV everytime that I received a curation from a specific project, the DV was matching a UV of a specific user. The first human thought is "Oh crap my 5$ reward now is 4$". It is normal to think like that. Especially when you are trying to grow here as a content creator. But what many people don't see is that the hive ecosystem needs a balance, and maybe that extra 1$ is somehow hurting this balance. I talked to the person downvoting me and they explained "Nothing personal just equalizing rewards" I accepted that and appreciated the explanation. Maybe it is time to see that Hive isn't just about reading and liking content...there are lots of things happening. It is a world and it is unbalanced for sure, but if each one of us does something to do something good here, it is the same that we think about recyclables in our homes. Hive is the only place that I express myself if it ends, maybe it will be just a memory in my past...