Cause the latter loses ocdb all curation rewards?
if you revoted with the stake that was unvoted then you would get curation from the new vote.. or does the system not return your vote power when a vote is undone? it's been a while since i looked at how that works.
I don't think we should discourage manual votes even more, some accidents happen sometimes we're all human. Downvoting wouldn't null all returns.
Almost no-one on Hive has the vote power to downvote a $600 upvote, so it's not really possible to undo the mistake with downvoting (without largescale organisation of lots of people for that purpose). I think 99% of people would just undo the vote.
lol you were literally crying about how much stake some people have and how that means hive is centralized a week ago but now barely anyone can downvote it down? Post has been on trending for a while now and aside from a couple snowflake attention whores no one seems to mind. It's a newcomer, let him/her enjoy the little RNG in curation. Not to mention one of the few ones who've actually bought hive and staked it up before posting.
Only about 5 accounts do large downvotes and only really yours has the power to downvote to this scale from what I've seen.
https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@acidyo/re-cmplxty-r4irln
Not only do you lose the curation returns from the vote you removed (and voting power) but the next vote won't give you any returns either (it all goes to the other voters on that post). Something already in talks to fix as many can't really recall what the purpose of it was to work this way to begin with, most likely anti-botting during the front-run reward era.
Fair enough, I do recall now from learning about this on Steem - I presumed it had something to do with putting people off of upvoting to get reach and then unvoting to use that reach somewhere else. Otherwise a post could be upvoted to the top spot, get a bunch of votes due to the exposure, then be unvoted and rinse-repeat - the same vote power boosts up a load of posts without ever actually being intended to result in a reward payout from the upvoter's own HP/stake.
Yeah, that could be one thing, another could be if it were to return you voting power as well when you unvote, then those wanting to maximize would spam vote on each post, then unvote if it didn't get other voters on top when the curve wasn't linear and rewarded front-runners.
Yes, it's not perfect, but on balance not returning the vote power when a vote is cancelled is probably a good idea.