Quite a delicate stuff. I'd say it can be really painful to lose rewards you've already gotten and it is also painful to watch someone else lose too. But @smooth's reason is a good reason for a post to be downvoted. Having more rewards than the post is worth is a good reason for it's rewards to be reduced by downvotes. The question that should be asked rather is: was the post really not worthy of the said rewards?
That is the only question that should be asked because we surely all agree that having more rewards than a post is worth is a good reason for it's rewards to be reduced using downvotes. If good analysis is carried out and the post is shown to be worthy of the said rewards only then can it be said that @smooth is wrong. Also, @smooth still has to explain why he thinks the post was not worthy of said rewards, not like an accused summoned by the courts but like a fellow friendly community member who loves everyone and is happy to promote the family spirit we've all been happy to try and build on hive.
Who decides what a post is worTh though? He simply scrolls and decides and he doesn’t take into account some of those people got consistent one dollars before that post, or how much time they spent building communities. John for example has a huge social media presence and spends loads of his time on boarding new members and people from the community, that’s reflected when people choose to upvote him. Those who upvoted them obviously felt it was worth it and gave their support in good faith. Many people within the circle regularly get 80-100 dollar upvotes for memes and regular posts with no dOwn votes. Like I said I think it’s about opening up the discussion. I think everyone’s opinion is valid.
You are wrong about:
He simply scrolls and decides and he doesn’t take into account some of those people got consistent one dollars before that post,
His down voting is easy to see and understand. He is not down voting you personally. He is removing reward value because one or two or three bad apples gave you what he feels is are excessive up votes to earn rewards based on your hard work. It is haejin, who is the problem of your down votes. If you do not want down votes tell haejin to go vote and troll someone else's post for rewards.
One day we may have the down vote system to where a specific up vote can be countered, until that day this is how it works.
People don't 'have' to do anything here, but we are judged on our actions. smooth did respond with his reasons and got abuse in return. If he took that to heard and left then Hive would be worse off.
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