Sure following a upvote trail is upvoting without a reason. I'll grant you that. That wasn't even my position. I manually curate everything. Now what? I've been here longer than Splinterlands. Don't try to act like you have an appeal to authority here. I'll admit I made a mistake about the downvote. It said downvote so it's more of another UX fail of Hive but I know people like to decentralize blame and centralize power so I can take the mistake on the chin. What proof do you have that Hive DR has any credibility. Seems like they're propping up a crumbling false intelligentsia to me. I could be wrong but they look like a censorship board to me. Discount Focus on the Family with extra steps. I never took an absolutist position that downvotes are universally bad so you shouldn't falsely frame me like that. I am allowed to believe in downvoting and also stand against censorship and centralization. They're not conflicting positions. Your downvoting debacle has turned many people away and Hive has a massive churn rate. That's negative growth. That's on top of the fraud and increasing centralization as users create more sock puppet accounts to offset the hemorrhaging and make Hive look busier than it really is.
Explain how downvoting has a growth factor. You can't just make statements like that without backing it up. Caps lock is not a form of validation.