Unfortunately, I can't even upvote this since my voting power is very low (not that those 2 cents matter). I was just reading another post of someone about this. What they pretty much said was that if you accept the upvotes, you also have to accept the downvotes. I agree with that to a certain point (to be honest, I didn't even know till recently that downvotes existed). People are free to express it if they liked it or not. I agree there. BUT. The problem is that you could get 40 upvotes, and then if one of the whales sweeps in and doesn't like what you are saying, they can take it all away. I think it creates a world within steemit that we are all trying to escape from and gives control and power to people who maybe shouldn't have it. If you take it a step further, government shills could come in and downvote just every post that would expose their work, like about vaccines or the Big Pharma or whatever. Besides that, it could become personal, if somewhere down the line, an author offended someone by what he/she said and now this someone just downvotes everything this person says. I don't know where to stand in this really and I just hope that those scenarios don't happen all too often.
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