I’m with you on this one, 100%. What you’re saying makes total sense. If big downvotes start chasing your curation, it is not just you or OCD that gets hit, it is all the random authors (and curators) in the middle. They never signed up for that kind of drama, and suddenly they look bad or feel like your support is useless. That kills motivation fast.

Stakeholders already have the tools to counter stuff they don’t like. The bigger question is how they use them. If it is just silent downvotes without context, the people who lose faith are not the projects, it are our everyday valuable authors. If we want Hive to keep growing, that part matters most.