Idk man, kinda feels like I have to explain my upvotes too. Like, some of the upvotes I hand out aren't good post or nice job, I just feel sorry for the user to have a sucky content and nobody likes but they did their best. Nobody questions the reason for an upvote because its positive. But when you got some stake to piss on other people doing their best, upvotes can just be as toxic as downvotes. Want to see grown ass men draw crayons on fictional characters then get tipu! The same amount of $ earned by an artist who has more mastery on their craft side by side on a mini trending? I tell you, there's no fairness in having favorites and it's manifested in upvotes too.
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Well, I don't know... I just pictured that grown ass man with his crayons, trying hard to color within the lines. 🤣 Ridiculous as it sounds, I still can't feel bad for him, even if he gets bigger rewards as others (or even me) who put tons of work into a post. On the other hand, seeing only one downvote (worth 0.000nothing) by a bot on my otherwise well received post, it actually hurts.
I don't feel bad for the guy, I just think it's an eye sore to stand near or above posts that show better outputs as it just sends a message on what the platform wants to value, or just the community. But those situations are mostly from curators that have ties to the author rather than an organic tip from strangers. If people lost money each time they upvote, we would see less voting activity unless its a self vote.
It's not permissible to just downvote a post because you don't like a content? But it's ok to upvote because you like the content? Idk, blurt seems to be a wonderland for having no downvotes and their trending has a lot of trash content.
Well, let's put it this way: you're always free to use your downvote, since it's yours. I never do, as I realize its effects can be taken quite seriously (as I know I would take them). But ultimately it's up to you what you do with yours. Still, I would recommend you to give an explanation for your downvote, because not knowing how I deserved it would bother me more than the loss of rewards.