This doesn't happen on Web3... On Hive, you don't just get banned and lose your following.
We need to change the Reputation System, dial it up to the speed of how fast we've become. Downvotes as a tool for deboosting, not only the post but the whole account have been causing a full graveyard of burnt-to-death wallets and it's still going. We see "curators" still what can only be described as "guarding" some #Tags with downvotes and made-up rules.
I've always seen the sense of the anti-abuse system, BIG BUT negative and positive engagement should increase visibility because this is an attention ecosystem that we're handling here. If you can sturr up 100Hive Upvotes and 150Hive Downvotes, you should be Nr.1 Slot on every trending page not -10 Reputation and invisible on most frontends.
It just breaks my heart that we're promoting total ownership of your account and then have a Reputation and Reward System that has consistently broken that paradigm and scared away who knows how many good ppl. Those fights often go beyond this blogging platform and pop up across Twitter as well. Anytime there is a well-floating Hive Tweet, some shadows come out of the dark and point to some serious downvote problems.
We can watch it live with Vigilanty TV, had that problems with DBuzz rewards, seem that with #gaming, it's a constant drag and I've seen it with a couple of accounts for years now. The accounts change because they leave and the drag continues somewhere else. I'm not speaking alien here, we've all seen notable influencers getting booted off the chain by downvotes and arbitrary rules. I'm just waiting for that ppl to come after Leo Threads, @Solominer already called me "Comment farmer" because I used Threads in bursts some evenings.
We are the single one and only platform that is not utilizing drama for gain but shoots itself in the foot over it.