Follow me on the Hive machanism and a logical conclusion:
Hive is not designed for pacifism. It has an additional mana renewal specifically for downvotes.
Some users never exercise their downvote power due to pacifist beliefs. However, when this ability is inherent and others utilize it, the pacifists are losing in the game.
When someone downvotes posts you voted for, they also damages your curation rewards.
Since the reward pool is limited, it's a zero-sum game. The downvoters wield more power, which we, the 'pussies' who refrain from harming others (as I did before realizing this), do not. Thus, the Hive system gradually increases the share of the pie for these downvoters at the expense of live-and-let-live users.
Smart users should not only vote but also retaliate with downvotes when their friends are downvoted to protect their curation rewards.
It's a lamentable reality, and I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts on this.
Since you asked for thoughts here's some.
This is your downvoting history over the last 7 days...downvoting people who have never cast a single downvote on you just because they commented on my posts.
So...please expect a downvote from me on every single comment or post you do, forever...including this very post.
You went away to Blurt in a rage quit and piled shit on Hive saying how terrible it was, how it has no value and it won't survive...and here you are representing yourself as a victim...well, in truth you really are, a victim of your own behaviors which have been reprehensible and anti-Hive in every way...and will stick with you forever.
Just so you know, every comment you have ever made is on the blockchain forever, and can be retrieved...so, before you start throwing stones and trying to garner favour from other users who possibly do not know your history you should take a moment to consider that the truth is out there for all to see.
Lol!
Depends how much you want to lose for yourself, because some of the malicous downvoters take this counter-downvotes as a personal attack and start downvoting too.
I usually don´t want to get involved in any downvoting war - with a few exceptions. This whole thing went way to far. Unfortunately there is no governance controlling that downvotes are justified (and only fight spam & plagiarism).
I believe there can still be more peace that exist among people on this platform. Well though I enjoy my quality time on hive