Since there are no moderators or admins that can ban an account for bad behaviour , they can only mute them in their own community, it's a good thing to have downvotes availeble to correct misbehaviour when needed.
But as always with a force of power some use it for personal grudge .
I've seen negativity in downvotes whale wars are not the kind of wars you want to get involved in.
most of that was back in the steem days . Downvotes have played a big part in educating people not to copy paste anything you find on the internet and source porperly. If you are hurt by downvotes you must have done something wrong and most of the times the downvoter explains why . At least i always explain why if i downvote manualy .
And the downvote trail i follow does the same .
Blurt is only good for those that don't care about copyrights .
Hey Mick. On paper it's a good thing for sure.
I have multiple friends (mostly artists) who left Hive due to wale wars.
They simply posted their work and got downvoted to oblivion. None of the instances were justified. The explination is always "uh, oh - idk, I follow I trail, it's just a dust vote, just ignore it" or "you plagiarize" even after complying to authenticate...
Due to those events I'm even scared to post their usernames here - real joke social media...
i've been away too for a while and came back last year , so far no complains from my side there is one or 2 whales that downvote voting trails but that is just a small percentage from the upvotes you get i don't even worry about that because it's not targeted against me .
I am not talking about myself, since I rarely get any votes at all. 😝
In regards to my friends, no it definitely was not only two whales.