Ich werde diese sensiblen Fragen auf Englisch beantworten, um Übersetzungsfehler und Missverständnisse zu vermeiden.

Downvote is an important tool to allow the community to moderate the content that is published on our platform.
The problem that the majority of users encounter with downvotes is not the existence of this feature, but the erroneous "blog and earn" message that is often conveyed and the poor perception by users of how the reward pool works. On the other side, I also have to admit that there are abuses that some do with their (down)voting power when they assign themselves to the role of the reward pool protectors. This is a very long debate, which has already been going on for a long time and which is difficult to summarize in a few lines.
In the absence of something else better, I am therefore in favor of maintaining this functionality.

As for the interest rate, you will notice that I have not changed the one I am signaling, for now. Which doesn't mean it shouldn't change in the future. It is not a question of pleasing investors but of properly managing the financial part of our ecosystem.