New users often get downvoted and pushed away. I have invited several friends here but it's not easy to get them to stay. I have one friend who came back after a time away, but is still getting downvotes. I understand there can be reasons to downvote spam, but once an account gets put on the downvote chain it's difficult to appeal. Recently I saw another user who was following me got caught posting something from a Facebook page that was not theirs, and they apologized but are probably still getting downvotes. There's also a bunch of people spamming the chain in tirades about how they were unfairly treated. I know that Downvoting is a mechanism for dealing with Spam and for Punishing bad behavior, but I generally don't do it. When I have received downvotes it is very unpleasant, which is the point I know. If users correct their behavior, the hope would be that the Downvotes stop. We are a very elite group of users who do have to defend our chain. I have imagined a Re-Hive front end where both under-voted posts and down-voted posts can be re-evaluated, but that might be a waste of time. Still, the posts are still in the blockchain, so it might be worth considering.