I'm often confused with how Leo.voter votes. They ignore good posts, but then turn around and pick an author who puts out just average generic stuff and they consistently reward him quite well. The inconsistency in their voting is very confusing.
Anyway, that lack of interaction always annoys me. If one doesn't have time to respond to comments (and I realize it does happen) then they should at least give a small upvote to let the commenter know their comment was read. That just seems like common courtesy to me. In my community, Blockchain Poets, I am always trying to stress to the members that they should make every effort to respond to all comments they receive.
Anyway, I haven't used downvotes much except in the case of obvious abuse. In more subjective cases I tend to err on the side of caution and give them the benefit of the doubt. I'm not sure if that is the right action or not.
Anyway, great thoughts.
I stumbled upon a user a week or so ago from medium who had written some articles about Hive, I noticed he did have an account and came here to see he had received close to no curation. There even was a leo curator in his comments joking about why he was posting to medium which he retorted with showing he had earned more there than on Hive and the leo curator went quite/ignored him.
It's a bit disheartening as these are the kind of "real" people you'd wanna support posting into your community/front-end, especially when you see votes like the above mentioned account taking a large pie of the pool for content not only barely anyone consumed but from a person who may or may not be real considering the lack of connections to other socials as the one I stumbled upon had.
These things matter, cause had he received more support on Hive he may have bothered to engage and build an audience here, but just cause some leo curators allegedly/potentially are too focused on voting up alts/maximizing post rewards he not rather focused on Medium and I had to tweet it out, give him a follow and comment to maybe get him to give Hive another proper try. And I'm not even involved with leofinance nor do I almost ever curate in their community.