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.
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? :)