Steemit gives us the opportunity to upvote and to downvote content.There are multiple good but also multiple bad reasons why someone might want to use the ability to downvote posts or comments.

This post isn't meant to judge downvoters in any way, either positively or negatively, but only to allow everyone an easy way to Watch The Watchers so to speak. To see steemit policing at work.

The script that generated this post monitors downvotes all day and looks up the potential voting weight of the down voter in order to weigh the votes. Currently the script does not account for voting power out of performance and script-lag considerations.

The below lists show the top accounts involved in high powered down voted on both sides of the downvoting process.Numbers displayed are normalized to a single vote by an account with 1 MVEST worth of active Voting Weight (MVVW) and only entries with at least 50 MVVW are displayed.

Top downvoters:

@steemcleaners 19141 MVVW : steemd
@haejin 14173 MVVW : steemd
@randowhale 9780 MVVW : steemd
@adm 8112 MVVW : steemd
@clayop 3358 MVVW : steemd
@spaminator 2240 MVVW : steemd
@dan 1990 MVVW : steemd
@matt-a 898 MVVW : steemd
@ausbitbank 823 MVVW : steemd
@mack-bot 575 MVVW : steemd
@sneak 517 MVVW : steemd
@ozchartart 492 MVVW : steemd
@onceuponatime 368 MVVW : steemd
@swissclive 356 MVVW : steemd
@greenman 315 MVVW : steemd
@liberosist 313 MVVW : steemd
@noisy 224 MVVW : steemd
@meerkat 156 MVVW : steemd
@ezzy 94 MVVW : steemd
@vander 93 MVVW : steemd
@asmolokalo 86 MVVW : steemd
@slothicorn 86 MVVW : steemd
@nonameslefttouse 84 MVVW : steemd
@ngc 83 MVVW : steemd
@reggaemuffin 68 MVVW : steemd
@beanz 63 MVVW : steemd
@mstfdmn 55 MVVW : steemd
@twinner 53 MVVW : steemd
@dhouse 51 MVVW : steemd

Top downvoted:

@haejin 8595 MVVW : steemd
@singhrajat 5879 MVVW : steemd
@tuck-fheman 5547 MVVW : steemd
@themarkymark 4163 MVVW : steemd
@originate 2895 MVVW : steemd
@stan 2479 MVVW : steemd
@justinashby 2392 MVVW : steemd
@krasotka 2210 MVVW : steemd
@steemmaster 2210 MVVW : steemd
@randowhale 2115 MVVW : steemd
@checkthisout 2105 MVVW : steemd
@moses153 1980 MVVW : steemd
@zoneboy 1348 MVVW : steemd
@berniesanders 1331 MVVW : steemd
@skt 1150 MVVW : steemd
@abdur1122 1060 MVVW : steemd
@grumpycat 1059 MVVW : steemd
@chemistry0 815 MVVW : steemd
@adson 773 MVVW : steemd
@gktown 663 MVVW : steemd
@ozmaga 634 MVVW : steemd
@sonamoo 622 MVVW : steemd
@cryptopaze 552 MVVW : steemd
@wissenschaft 552 MVVW : steemd
@tripadvisor.com 483 MVVW : steemd
@tt-dogg 480 MVVW : steemd
@sgtreport 469 MVVW : steemd
@isran01 442 MVVW : steemd
@baveva 410 MVVW : steemd
@steem-network 388 MVVW : steemd
@holic7 382 MVVW : steemd
@jyp 382 MVVW : steemd
@xeo 375 MVVW : steemd
@shuvadeepbhowmik 368 MVVW : steemd
@farmingbot 292 MVVW : steemd
@itigridi 259 MVVW : steemd
@trafika 239 MVVW : steemd
@hefziba 233 MVVW : steemd
@ned 222 MVVW : steemd
@ackza 185 MVVW : steemd
@max1994 167 MVVW : steemd
@spiritualpower 157 MVVW : steemd
@danyelk 154 MVVW : steemd
@xiknybuc 130 MVVW : steemd
@noganoo 126 MVVW : steemd
@noisy 114 MVVW : steemd
@marufhs371 112 MVVW : steemd
@sayfsobuj454 110 MVVW : steemd
@syedwaqas 110 MVVW : steemd
@powerman99 108 MVVW : steemd
@joe.public 99 MVVW : steemd
@paulag 95 MVVW : steemd
@davebrewer 94 MVVW : steemd
@saurabhgupta 88 MVVW : steemd
@scarlet7 86 MVVW : steemd
@narmejgrager 86 MVVW : steemd
@ryox 76 MVVW : steemd
@tarquinmaine 74 MVVW : steemd
@shanone 71 MVVW : steemd
@holunder 70 MVVW : steemd
@contentjunkie 70 MVVW : steemd
@minnowboosted 68 MVVW : steemd
@michaellamden68 58 MVVW : steemd
@dsocer 53 MVVW : steemd

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Watching The Watchers: Top steemit flags/downvotes for 2018-01-02

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