I actually wrote about this 7-8 days ago and said that one of the main reasons I powered up is to downvote.

I think I shared an image in the discord server of two "different" accounts sharing the same thing, which their entire link (In their almost identical title) was the reputation link. There's an entire group of people who work together, including two who were already caught by Hivewatchers for plagiarising slowly rising, and I already see three of them in the top 50 in rep and LN rich list. There are some more details I can't share here.

Whether we like it or not, this is on us as listnerds members and community. People think it's nice to just upvote everyone. I'd argue it's also nice to make sure that rewards go to people working hard, not only with quality content but also engaging properly with every mail they receive and interacting with others, as well as attempting to bring people on board. I remember making the Listnerd curation idea/post, a few days later thisismylife created a welcoming message/picture. Now I see Jimmy and Bestart having their own and working hard to spread the word.

Forget about my team, as obviously I would be biased there. It's unfair to have the work of someone like Jimmy and Bestart treated the same way as someone who shared a random article online about superfood or some clothing site that they have nothing to do with.

Downvotes are important, I'd argue as important as upvotes. It's the community's job to do that.