I didn't expext you to react anymore. Thanks for this detailed reply!

As such, I use my downvoting power to nudge down rewards that I see as costing us more than the value the post is likely to generate.

That's an interesting one. How do you measure the value it is likely to generate?
Is it the exposure to attract new users on Hive?
When I'm honest, my blogs with $5 rewards are unlikely to bring $5 in return for the community in ways of exposure. But do my posts need to be downvoted then as well?

I know you are downvoting posts that have way more rewards than that, and I think it's good that you're doing this.

I do question myself how any post that has over $50 rewards is going to have a return for the community, let alone posts with over $100. Maybe indeed the posts that are not a dime a dosin.

So I hope that my own downvotes serve as a nudge, and others who likewise agree that these (or other) posts are a drag on the value of Hive (which I'm sure we all want to go up) will follow along and also make small downvotes.

They surely are a good nudge. Only the anger and retalliation downvotes can cause stop me from doing it too.
I've seen too many downvote wars and I don't want my account that I've built up in years being destroyed because I downvote a post make the rewards more fair in my eyes.

I think I'm not the only one in this and that makes it difficult to trigger a change.
That's why I ask myself in my blog whether it would be a task for the larger curation initiatives to not only upvote, but also downvote posts.