Ya @steevc I completely get it and I am all for free will and I do see the need for a mechanism of this sort, but when it is abused, perhaps that account should be suspended from downvotes for a month? Something like that maybe, though it would be hard to police and decisions to downvote are of course subjective. What I don't like seeing is a detailed post that someone has clearly poured five or six hours into getting downvoted or a post where someone opens up their heart about something like bereavement or something like that and then they are downvoted by an account who clearly has not even read the post they are downvoting.