At least this post got some traction.
I hope the people you mentioned thank you for the traffic.
A down vote is still better than no vote.
A bad comment is still better than no comment.
Bad press is still good press as long as they spell your name right .
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Downvoting on Hive is a tool to punish bad content, it is not like in other social networks where it express your liking of the content. Here it is a tool to, for example, punish violent, plagiarism or illegal content.
It is specially powerful when they use a trail of downvotes. The effects of downvotes (increased by using a trail) are:
demonetize the downvoted content
reduce the reputation (level) of the poster
Luckily I have a reputation of 69.6 and enough people sided with me so my level and rewards are untouched. The downvote trail only showed their true colors.
You may see some posts, once in a while, that have zero rewards because the downvotes removed the reward from the upvotes. You may even sometimes see people with a reputation level below zero if the person keeps getting downvoted, many spammers have a very negative level.
The lower your level and the less rewards the LESS publicity you have.
Here, differently from other social networks, downvotes are a tool and generate an impact. It effectively reduces the reach of the post and the user in the long term.
Downvoting here is a tool to repress content that is ill intended, it is not only a way to show you disliked the content.