Downvotes are a part of the platform similar to upvotes, there is no shame in receiving them. Readers could see the comment placed and understand as well. It also has nothing to do with the community you're posting into, you've received a downvote another time in the past and that wasn't in a community.
The main benefit to post into communities is that maybe more readers interested in the genre you post about see you, follow you and start interacting in your posts.
I'm not interested in arguing back and forth acid. This will be my final post on this. People with a name to protect will not be interested in posting on hive to receive downvotes. I don't care about the "net positive gain" if there is a downvote. I did nothing wrong but somehow there is a downvote from the most powerful author on the platform. You guys will need to sort this system out at the top - you are driving people away.
You seem to have a weird view on this, which is sad considering how long you've been here. This is how Hive works, you have upvote mana and downvote mana, use both wisely and well to protect the reward pool so deserving posts get the right rewards. You can't be okay with getting blind 90+ votes by 2 accounts but not be okay with another account adjusting it down a little to give you a fair reward. If this drives people away then we probably wouldn't want those people to be here in the first place.
It's one thing if haejin/rancho decide to vote on a new account and the post is of high quality and effort to deserve the rewards, another if they vote on lower effort posts that take them to trending - much worse look for hive than any downvote on those posts could.