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RE: Although subjectively downvoting posts to zero is anathema to me, the Layer 1 ability to do so must remain (for now at least)
It really doesn't and many downvotes on disagreement of rewards are often cast later on to avoid the trending "attention". Of course those who are against downvotes will use this to their defense too "they downvoting late so people can't counter vote due to penalty or not seeing it".
tl;dr, there's no winning with authors of posts you downvote, so having to explain to each and everyone why leads to endless arguments and discussions wasting everyone time. 99% of the time it's always about the rewards and not about any form of "censorship".
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yeah I could imagine it would get tedious making an explanation every time. But my point is that it would at least make the process more transparent. I mean, we could also not care about DV and just use it when we subjectively or objectively feel like it. But I would certainly like to know the reason when someone is downvoting me (especially when it happens repeatedly). I have seen many posts where there is no "objective" reason (like the one mentioned above), which then seems more like an abuse of power.
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