The original idea behind the down vote was to remove rewards from anyone trying to commit crimes such as plagiarism, theft by fraud, scams, etc.
Nothing to do with using it to remove rewards from other users just because they have different opinions or world views or different intentions with their received donations whether it be through stale weighted voting or direct liquid transfers or the "tip" 🎁 function on each post and comment.
But human nature, ignorance, idiotism and the want to show how big their stake is to show superiority over others, has many believing that down voting for power, control and to make more money at everyone's else's loss(even if you haven't committed a crime), is completely okay. Why? "Because simply, there is a button which allows me to take away donations this it is justifiable to use it."
Yes few do zero out rewards for their own benefit, but I think they wouldn't be such a problem if the overall hivians HP reflected something more decentralized and the current frame doesn't fit this picture.
Stake more hive.
Cheers.
Staking more hive is not the issue, the main issue is the blacklisting of account permanently
Sure