Yes, you are correct. There are good downvotes used to fight spam. What kind of set me off, and was the reason for this post is the vast number of downvotes from @xwhatever accounts. People shouldn't be getting downvoted because they got curated by someone, that some one else has a beef with. Or, used an app that someone else doesn't like. This especially shouldn't happen to new accounts. I saw an introductory post downvoted the other day. Please explain to me if I'm missing something? I'm sure the people behind these downvotes have there reasons and think they're helping. But if you look at it from an entrepreneur's lense there's really no good reason to do something that might make new users feel unwelcome.