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I can see that.
I also see anything I post that is criticizing the platform as me filing a bug report since we are in beta and that would imply we might be able to improve some things.
I have not been negatively hit by down voting. I have seen people who can. I absolutely despise what it's results are on reddit.
It is potentially worse here due to the ding to reputation and the loss of potential earnings.
That is going to be a continual powder keg. Don't you think? (question just applied to the powder keg... not expecting agreement on the rest)
I think downvoting only becomes a perennial powder keg if the inequality in the reward distribution remains as high as it is now. In a less extreme scenario where neither a single upvote nor a single downvote carry such an excessive weight people will probably be rather meh about it.