Well, I find the reasons for their downvotes okay. (If they were as if they explained it, and not used them as excuse.) If the post is posted with the wrong tag, then it's okay to downvote it... If the post is low quality (and I know this is subjective) it's okay to downvote it until it reaches the appropriate reward/quality ratio.

I know it feels bad, that's how I'd feel too. If it happened to me and kept happening, I might stop posting on Hive and look for the next thing, but that's how the system works.

As for trolling... The problem of Hive being a Social Media alternative, (which is how I use it apart from my blogging) will become worse with time as Facebook/Twitter trolling problems are there, not because they are social media platforms, but because they're big enough for trolls to find a place in.

The bigger Hive becomes, the more obvious this will be. I think it'll be even more obvious than normal social media because no one can delete blockchain content.

By the way.... What if they asked for followers? If they're bad people can simply not follow or unfollow them... Right?