Abusive downvoting does waste time and it also pushes away potential new investment. One of Hive's easiest selling points that often gets overlooked is the fact a consumer gets paid to consume. They must have HP though. If this platform somehow attracted a true big name who understand the economy here, that individual content creator could attract thousands upon thousands of small valuable votes. If these consumers are donating or subscribing someplace else, Hive offers them a far better deal since that consumer no longer throws their money away. That content creator would receive those votes daily, plus these thousands of consumers have nine more votes that trickle down, spilling over onto other interesting content of their choosing. It's a win for everyone but if that effort to attract thousands just gets downvoted because "too much", we'd never be able to attract another one who then attracts thousands more. Content is a product. Buying Hive and staking it is how this content is sold. Those consumers are important and these downvotes negatively affect far more consumers than just the one content creator taking the hit. Each post becomes its own reward pool for hundreds of people now and hopefully thousands into the future. Start chipping away at legit content and even those consumers have no reason to be here, yet they're the most important. Often in cases of abuse it's only a handful of people with multiple accounts farming rewards. Sorry for the wall of text; was in a hurry.