I agree. If there's a good reason for a downvote, then making a proposal like for DHF funding would support it. DV's are taxes. Hive, and Steem before, enable unrestrained taxation, punitive or otherwise, of anyone's content in order to make it less rewarding for the creator to publish on Hive. I have talked to someone very concerned about spam, scams and other potential disruptions of the platform, Marky, and was told that DV's do very little to discourage spammers and scammers, because these are monetized by other means than author rewards. As Marky explained HW receives orders of magnitude more in DHF funding to force people off Hive than they actually prevent spam from causing. HW are Hive's Marketing Program today - and they're specifically driving people off and away from Hive!
There's no good reason for DV's, and thousands of people will explain that DV's chased them off the platform, so there's that many bad reasons.
The ninjamined stake of the earliest oligarchy today continues to control governance by suppressing growth that would increase distribution of the token. By controlling growth, and controlling the code the witnesses run, they continue to enable themselves to capture the lion's share of inflation from the rewards pool. There were ~35 whales that ninjamined massive stakes when Steem was created, and there's ~35 whales that hold the majority of Hive today. The reason they have maintained governance and the majority of stake is DV's. Using DHF funds to flag people with is just pouring salt and vinegar on the wound, but adding insult to injury like that is just bad manners, too.
I have been donating 25% of my author rewards to good creators that are continually flagged for years (although I've recently begun using 5% to reward comments instead, when CommentRewarder was introduced, and only donating 20% to DV victims). If more people did that there'd be no point to funding HW and the other flaggots that are suppressing Hive growth, and they'd have to find another scam. Folks can donate as little as 1% of their author rewards in this way to fight the flags that are driving people, that produce good content, off the platform. I strongly encourage everyone to donate even just 1% of their author rewards in that way to support free speech and help Hive grow. Everyone can afford that.
Thanks!