RE: What is the difference between being downvoted and being silenced?

Yeah. I champion this a lot too. I was getting my posts zeroe everyday for over 6 months and by zero, I mean I was completely wiped out everyday. If it was a new user they might probably left in the second week. However these people will not stop the DV no matter what. They'd basically say it's an expensive of their will and all that.
It's just like the issue of the DHF, it's a concern but then it's a bit controversial, so.

I think the DVs have decreased though, it was notoriously bad q year or two ago.