NO, there is an elementary mistake with everybody's reasoning, look you get 100.00 as rewards for an article, but this big guy goes and takes 50.00 with a downvote, the idea is that this goes back to the reward pool, but in reality most of the people who vote on Steemit use autovotes, that is a fact and can easily be seen just wait five minutes and a post goes from 0 to 10.00 in five seconds, these people if they do receive what was dwnvoted from you because downvotes return rewards, will not be voting again their auto upvotes have already been given, so if someone gives you a 50.00 to compensate for your loss due to the downvote that money is lost to other people who also deserve rewards because their articles are OK (Just OK because anyway most posts on Steemit are shit posts, yes that includes mine). So yes, downvotes cause reward loss, its not like they are just redistributed.