I usually don't do downvotes except in rare cases. In my more or less 8 months on Hive, I think I just did it twice or three times. As for ListNerds, after watching your YouTube channel this morning and hearing the reasons for downvotes, I did downvote one for the first time for I see no point in sharing an article outside of Hive with almost zero interaction with the content he is sharing. As for dead links, yes I see many, but I just ignore them. Reputation is good as well as the prior acquaintance on Hive, but still, I don't automatically upvote an email because of these. I recognize that value is subjective, but if I see that, though I don't know the person and he has a low reputation, he deserves an upvote.