Downvotes are a necessary friction mechanism — they keep reward pools honest and discourage low-effort or harmful content. The tricky part is intent: downvoting because something's actually bad for the community is healthy; downvoting out of spite or to suppress dissent is corrosive. On Hive, the stake-weighted system means downvoters have skin in the game, which theoretically aligns incentives better than zero-cost downvotes on traditional platforms.

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