Some entitled people just don't understand the concept of a shared pool. They equate STEEM power to a proportional claim to the reward pool. Furthermore, they don't understand what is actually happening when the downvote occurs, and their knee-jerk reaction is someone is stealing from them. The casual onlooker coming to their defense and decrying downvotes also doesn't realize that those rewards being sent back to the pool are now up for grabs for content that is under-rewarded, which might include their own. If they truly understood what was happening to the reward pool with a bunch of whales and large orcas trading votes off in the corner, they'd be liberal with the downvotes too.
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We wish that was the case. "for content that is under-rewarded"
It has never occurred to you to think that this poignant strategy of sending rewards back to the collective shared pool through downvotes. Many times also looks like mere transactions among rival circle jerks to swap rewards between hands which very often end up exclusively on opponent's over-rewarded posts & accounts too? };)
I'm not saying it's not a constant game of whack-a-mole!
Haha yeah! We both wouldn't know this better unless we could've not analyzed the whole thing in slow motion. eh? :)