i think, as in everything, we need to have boundaries. The same applies to downvotes. In my opinion, it is a tool that will help keep a balance when people are trying to take advantage of Hive and its people, like vote for vote, plagiarism, AI content, fake giveaways, rugs and the list goes on.

Especially nowadays, when we are only a few active people around here, we need to both support the creators if ofc we like their content and at the same time try to maintain that balance, because especially at times where we have a lack of activity or high activity is where most scammers lie.

Now if someone uses his HP to simply downvote whatever he doesn't like just becuase, even though he can do it and nothing can be done if other whales don't step it, the end result will be more and more people to lose interested in Hive, meaning loss for him long-term as well.