The argument to explain why they down vote so the money returns to the pool for everyone is hypocritical when they turn around and consistently vote for subjectively average content ...
Or, when they vote for sock puppet accounts that they admittedly created. Yes - that is absolutely hypocritical. For someone to refuse to acknowledge that point and continue to downvote information that exposes the ones creating and upvoting the sock puppets is utterly laughable.
"I'm going to downvote your post because I don't want it draining money from the rewards pool by exposing people who are actually draining money from the rewards pool."
Yeah...that doesn't work. My $0.25 on this post did not at all compare to the thousands of dollars in rewards per week going to the identified (and even ADMITTED) socks.