Downvotes are tiny upvotes for everyone else on the platform.
You use upvotes to use the influence you gain by your stake, downvotes are the same exact thing in the opposite direction. Not saying all downvotes are good but in general they allow stake holders to use their influence given to them by their stake to decide where rewards should go.
If they think something is underrewarded then upvote it, overrewarded downvote. Downvotes are not violence by nature, granted many do use them maliciously but they are mostly to balance rewards based on how much influence your stake awards you. Without them, we become whaleshares.
Very well @themarkymark, please tell me why their profile descriptions expressly say that they down vote people that use SBI, so there is no balancing nor even viewing of content they down vote. Why do you seem so eager to protect CLEARLY malicious activity? Not one of my posts have gotten a massive payout so please take 2 seconds of your day and actually look at the facts. Also I know you know these profiles as I followed previous comment trails and I have seen you interact. This is as clearly abuse as it gets.
Why don't you add a blacklist to your API for malicious down voting? You can't decide a post is over rewarded if you didn't even read it.
Please cite one of my posts that are down voted by them which is over rewarded?
Like I said, not all downvotes are malicious nor are all good.
I have no control how people use their downvotes or their upvotes, I can only use my influence to balance as I see fit.
So you can use your influence to fight spam and plagiarism aka malicious content, just not malicious voting, so you care about HIVE just not the community members, got it.
@themarkymark, I especially loved this article from you:
https://hive.blog/steem/@themarkymark/what-happens-when-you-don-t-do-what-justin-sun-wants
Now we can just replace Justin Sun with @mmmmkkkk311 @ctime @abuse-signal or @mariuszkarwski and the witnesses won't do anything about it, as they only serve themselves and not the community. All of a sudden the word witness sounds like politician... Hmmm funny...
Think I should do a parody article of that.
I give out over $300 in votes a day to the community. Yeah, I don't care about the community members. Take your bs somewhere else.