How many times have you seen a downvote, combined with intelligent, constructive feedback? Probably never.
This is not true. Good downvotes are being used to fight spam, scam and plagiarism. Even I received some downvotes in the past, because I did the latter unknowingly. It was reasonable with intelligent, constructive feedback, and I learned from it.
Good downvotes are used to keep the platform clean. I also understand that there are bad downvotes. Downvote abuse. Downvote wars.
This is like a knife. You can use it to make a sandwich (put butter to the bread), or you can also use it to stab someone.
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.
HiveblocksI also received unreasonable downvotes from those x accounts, for example from @xecency. These are troll accounts. If you check on , then you can see that all they do is downvoting. @xecency currently has 4.66% downvote power. I have not checked this in details, but probably this account is downvoting everything what @ecency is upvoting. Fortunately/luckily it does not have much Hive Power to downvote. It does not even own any Hive Power. It has a delegation of 395.718 Hive Power. 350.555 Hive Power from @steemium, and 45.163 Hive Power from @promobot.