Someone (or an algorithm written for the same purpose) makes the content more difficult to find.
It's someone. A professional downvoter; his nick starts with the "bl", ends with the "oom" and contains 5 letters. I made a mistake to post a joke on climate change and he pillaged my blog, downvoting 10 posts and bumping my score from 27 down to 8.
Censorship will destroy Steemit.
Amen to that. This is nothing but abuse. He keeps coming back to downvote anything I post, so, in fact I can't post anything until I catch up to him or else my score will go into negative because of all his downvotes. To me this is abuse and harassment. Hopefully there is a way to stand up to this censoring freak.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
You can actually see it right there on your own comment. It's the guy who gave it the first (and only) downvote. His steam power is over 12000 and his reputation is 45; so all those with lower reputation and lower steam power are vulnerable. There has been a suggestion that declining rewards would make one's reputation immune from downvoting - well, that doesn't appear to be working too well (one downvote from that behemoth bully = hidden comment and minus 1.5 to the reputation.)
P.S. Now he gave me 100% downvote for this comment, so my reputation is down to 23. If you could upvote both comments that he downvoted to offset the damage a little bit - I'll appreciate. Thanks.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Yep, good point, that doesn't seem to slow them down much.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Please keep your default on "payout declined" for everything for more than 7 days. That way we can test to make sure your rep decline isn't due to b l o o m downvoting one (or all) of your posts (that are less than 7 days old) that doesn't have declined payouts.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit