Read the on chain downvote history, along with the comments of those who downvoted.

The term "I do not agree with the rewards given to this post" comes, or came up a lot. It's easy for the person receiving that downvote to think, "Me or my content sucks too much to receive X amount of reward." Then they turn around and see similar content trending, sometimes upvoted by the very account that downvoted them.

Anyways, the point I'm trying to make is, HIVE is a product, and the content on Hive is also a product. All products need producers and consumers. Producers here (for the most part) are your long form content creators, and photographers. Consumers are your average account that doesn't post quality content, but views others content. Your average user isn't going to post high quality content, just like your average youtube account probably doesn't even have a video uploaded, and if they have any uploaded, it's low quality content... We want many of these average accounts here posting their average content making an average of very little for their average post.

I used to read a lot of complaints about downvotes, not so much anymore. The downvoting has slowed, but has it slowed because the downvoters changed their strategy? Or has it slowed because the users targeted have mostly left?

Where are all our consumers? We had plenty... There was a shit load of average Joe's and Janes spewing their gibberish all over the chain, and now they are an endangered species near extinction. I want them back, and if they do decide to come back, I would appreciate it if others didn't chase them away.