My comment does not imply that downvotes shouldn't exist. They are necessary for 'self-regulation.' but let's be clear about something - 'abuse' as many would espouse must be met with the same moral lens across all avenues in the ecosystem, and critically, dealt with proportionately.
The problem is that the extent is just not very publicly known and so most of the time, the 'self regulation' part is more about earning popularity points and not actually getting to the crux of the issue.
I would love to 'downvote' many DHF proposals, but apparently downvotes aren't needed there.
I also think that HBD apr@20% is not too dissimilar to self-voting with no consequence. If you think about what it materially means, idle reward > than productivity for the same capital input.
Since when did we tolerate people sucking the reward pool for minimal/zero effort?
Why do we tolerate it now just because it's buying a derivative of Hive (HBD) ?