Shame you have chosen to focus on mine while disregarding the majority of the other hundreds/thousands that you also deem not worth the reward yet rarely act on them.
Pretty sure you are wrong about that. I don't seek out your posts at all, and don't even systematically downvote at all. Your posts are among those which I see with high payouts everyday and I may downvote if I happen to notice, but hardly unique in this, I downvote plenty of others too. But do keep in mind that we only get 2.5 free downvotes per day if voting at 100%, which I usually don't, more like 50% so perhaps 5 votes. The only way downvoting is to have a real impact is if a lot of people were doing it, which mostly isn't the case. A lot of crap still falls through the cracks every day due to there being hardly any downvotes overall, unfortunately.
so that the community can know what is "allowed".
Posting anything is allowed (unless you are violating some law or ToS of a UI you are using). You are just not guaranteed to earn rewards ever. That is up to stakeholder voters.
Yes of course, allowed to earn rewards, which I was hoping would be pretty clear with the quotation marks around it. :)
Yes, you are right, the downvotes and upvotes were pretty close, it has just felt like a lot more and the downvotes were much more memorable and impactful on an emotional level. It may not have been targeted but when you see a lack of many other downvotes it's hard to not feel that it is, which is part of the problem with community downvotes in general, the feelings attached.
But again this is all so far besides the main point. You are free to downvote whatever you like, as is anyone else. However, when the downvotes come from the largest downvoting trail in the history of steem and continue day after day regardless of content or its value, that is when it turns from stake holder consensus to bullying.
Something that likely won't attract or retain much of anyone.
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I just looked at my history. I have voted you 83 times, of which 37 were upvotes and 46 were downvotes.
Which BTW, is out of a total of 4457 downvotes.
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Wow... those numbers still surprise me I thought it would have been worse in terms of downvotes to upvotes. I guess that further drives home the point about emotions being attached to downvotes... they become much more impactful and memorable. Thanks for looking that up by the way. I stand corrected about the 50-1 thoughts.
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Sorry, I had the numbers reversed (due to a dumb coding error in my query), and you may not have seen the edit. Still either way it is close to 50/50 and only a tiny portion of my downvotes.
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