Downvote may have a place when people continuously abuse a system. Perhaps writing to people first explaining they are abusive in their content and reason.
Allow community admin to downvote where on-going abuse takes place. Downvoting creates a negative reaction especially to new arrivals.
A downvote without a reason is a waste of time IMHO...
@tipu curate
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Thanks you.
It's a difficult one. I'm not exempt myself, even though I know how things are supposed to work. People are happy about unexpected upvotes, but 1 downvote out of 100 upvotes will get to us haha.
At the end of life on Steem I had attracted for no reason up to 40 downvotes at a time, I would have gracefully accepted this had there been one reason given.
Freedom to do a up/down vote is every ones right of choice except when it becomes abusive.
The new Hive system indicates when a person is prone to plagiarism or untoward behavior by @hivewatchers who are doing a sterling job.
Ugh! how annoying! Even if they don't take off much of the reward, or reputation, it's still very annoying to constantly get a stream of downvotes for no reason.