You have to attribute some of that to steem price being in the shitter. You should kick off your shoes and stay a while, for entertainment value if anything. Better yet, take a step back, cancel your power down and just follow the @curie trail and vote it 100% for a while. Come back in 6 months.

A dozen people joined the SFR discord within minutes (in a few cases) asking how they can help fight abuse on STEEM. Most mentioned it was because of the 'free downvotes'. I now see people downvoting that were otherwise idle before because they wanted to preserve their upvote for followers. There's a lot of pent up energy that's being released in my opinion.

The people who get the bulk of the downvotes should leave, and it's okay if they get upset. If people are are upset because they are getting downvoted without cause or for retaliation, I want to know about (along with others) that so I can help restore some of those rewards.