Think you may have me mistaken as the music thing doesn't make any sense.
I don't go around downvoting anything I think doesn't have value either, lucy just happened to be someone who ranted about shit that has close to no value while at the same time being a cunt about it. It's a social media platform, if we can't have feelings and reactions to things as humans then we may just as well go full bots.
I am fine with reactions. I just wish they were done either by ignoring, muting, or responding with words. Throwing powerful weight around doesn't make the platform look good except to those that have power which is a minority.
I'm 99.999% sure that aside from you and some other folks who read his content and/or followed him to pob his posts getting downvoted have had close to 0 effect to Hive or people without accounts yet reading him before/after.
It could be. Yet he is not the only example. He is just the most blatant example I could find. I posted quite a few times in the past two months or more I've been back about how it is better here than steemit (which is still true). Each time someone would send me a link to refute that. They were mostly one offs. While I didn't like seeing it... it wasn't yet a "where there is smoke there is fire" type of thing. The @lucylin case was blatant and obvious. It was exactly the negative crap that drove myself and others from steemit. I was never a target. I just got tired of seeing it. I started viewing steemit as a cesspool and I no longer wanted to support it.
Hive is not there. Let's learn from steemit and not repeat the mistakes made there. Some of those mistakes have already been avoided.
Just cause some do it doesn't make them look bad or the platform. I know for a fact many other smaller stakeholders agreed with those downvotes and would've cast them themselves if their weight made a dent.
You are likely correct. Yet neither you and I can truly know those perceptions (as a whole). We can guess.
Are you not involved in supporting the music community some here? If not then yes I have you confused with someone else.