Is the last bit not a valid point of view? Ultimately voting is about the allocation of a budget. It's entirely possible to like something but not want to dedicate limited funds to it. I also see downvotes the same way, it's perfectly valid to say "we are paying too much for this", it's just unfortunate that current downvotes are clunky and carry extra social baggage.
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The problem isn't new users getting overpaid it's old users like you who were overpaid and are now powering down. The powering down of users like yourself putting loads of liquid steem on the market is ruining steem. You wanna help steem and steemit quit the power down @demotruk
You are saying someone else choose to pay too much for this. Down votes like that cancel out other people's work and causes people to leave the system. And if steemit is running out of funds already god help us
Hypothetical: I create a meme that makes 100 people laugh and I get 100 votes, I earned those votes. For someone like you to come along and say I made too much and downvote is a simple case of the steem rich wanting to keep the steem poor poor.
I think if you are powering down you should waive any right to payments from posts. That will save your budget.
Why is "this post deserves more reward from the pool" inherently acceptable but "this post deserves less" somehow invalid? It's a governance system, all stakeholder views are valid.
You should review my transactions more carefully before you make such a statement. If you do, you'll notice a) I am actually powering up more than I am powering down and b) my Steem Power comes primarily from buying it, not the rewards pool. ie. I'm one of the people who is with regularity funding the rewards pool with my money. Without people like me there is no rewards pool. Why should I continue to support it when my rights to decide how that money is distributed is taken away?
One is giving another is taking away from what someone else already gave you... If you don't see the difference...
We have a right to decide how our money is spent. No money is given until the voters collectively decide, downvotes are part of that. If you read the white paper, there is a whole section about why it's necessary.