There used to be a lot more people down voting things all the time on the other chain. Thankfully it’s improved on this one but it still remains it seems.
Some of the more powerful people who find the need to dictate their ideas to all us others, find that downvotes are a good part of the platform because it reduces the inflation or something. I sort of get their logic with it but those types of things fall on deaf ears a lot of times when they have hundreds of thousands of hive power and a down vote like that is a tickle on their pinky toe. We are trying to scrape some words together to earn a few hive a week so we need all the hive we can get so down votes are a pain in that regard.
This could be one of those who feel they should benefit the reward pool by down voting, meaning a larger account that doesn’t want to reveal their true identity or it could be someone just having fun annoying people. Hard to say but you can find out a lot about a user by their transactions they do. I’ve learned of some people who have alternate accounts that do this type of stuff and it’s interesting to tie them together.
Oh I know it and I understand all that. I know there will also be those hypocritical large accounts who downvote posts they don't believe worthy of payout, yet ironically make much more than that payout simply with their curation rewards. I remember seeing plenty of that.
I feel like it's gotta be someone just trolling to annoy people. That's the most confusing part for me- the vote value. If this was an account with an even slightly significant vote value, I wouldn't question it at all. That's the part confusing me. Like what is the point of this.