@thoughts-in-time, I he see he gave you another downvote here on this post, this time not possibly for 'excessive rewards'... How much you wanna bet the first was punishment for voicing dissenting vaccine opinion (truth) rather than 'excessive reward'. He's hit my 2 most recent posts, both extremely well sourced and info-packed articles exposing the corona and 'vaccine' scam, so I wonder if it is partial reward policing and part punishment for difference of opinion. In any event, you're right, great post, rewarding good content will do far more to encourage growth here than punishing high rewards. Isn't high rewards to be an incentive to reach for, rather than an accomplishment to bring about punishment? Pathetic people feel the need to use power in such a negative way, rather than supporting content they find to be deserving of high payouts. I wish there was a tool to search for upvote/downvote history, as I'd like to see who this guy upvotes, if anyone. I say scrap the downvote function, before hive is barren of all the good users who flee this negative and arguably tyrannical environment for greener grass. many are leaving because of this, I don't see how this downvote behavior helps anyone, regardless of it being the 'right' of the stakeholder to use their weight for whatever purpose they deem useful...