Though I rarely used them, that was first thing I tested. Found a reasonable place to drop downvotes nonstop. 100% sure they wouldn't mind. Didn't take me long before I was already chewing up my upvote mana, using downvotes. Gets to a point you're hitting yourself, rather quickly. I didn't drain everything but I know if I had kept going, I'm putting myself in timeout.

The incentive to be responsible exists.

Curating manually has always been my method. So I can say from experience, this is better. No thinking involved. No strategy needed. Something catches my eye, I enjoy it, I vote. Done deal. Simple.

Now if more were actually out there doing this, the incentive to create attractive content exists.

And if you don't like doom scrolling, simply mute all the repetitive creators that seem to get in the way and clog up the feeds. Don't want to be ignored? The incentive to be responsible exists. Creating content too difficult? Relax. Stick around. Voting and commenting yields rewards, and it's easy.

Still new and everything is fresh but so far, feels like things are a lot more fair and balanced. Time will tell, of course. I hope to see an improvement. It's up to everyone else to decide where they want to go with this.