I am glad that someone decided to write a post about this and I admire the guts it took to write. I have been involved with this platform since Jan 2018, and downvoting has long been one of my concerns especially when powerful accounts are doing the downvoting. Hive is supposed to be a platform in which users' content is not censored in any way, the kind of downvoting that @smooth is doing violates the idea of a DPoS blockchain community and is a form of censorship in my opinion. What is preventing any powerful account from running rampant and downvoting content just for the heck of it? It blows my mind why anyone would be downvoting other users' content like this. Doesn't this account clearly state that they do not even dislike the content they are downvoting...isn't that the exact opposite of what the downvote is supposed to be used for? I am often a humble person, a wise man once said that "in order to not feel like shit you have to keep your head above all the bullshit" but to be frank, this downvoting thing pisses me the fuck off, and I'm sick of being quiet about it. Let's be real this is why we left Steemit and built Hive so we didn't have to deal with myopic pompous shills swinging their wallets around. It gives off a sense of hierarchy and classism like these accounts I'm downvoting are mere peasants and I'm gonna squish them with my whale blubber, Nah, what you're going to do is start a revolt. What if we created a counter account to these actions pump it up and just counteract everything this whale and other whales who chose to do this, after all, who does the ninja mined stake belong to in the end. I will go down with my battleship for this issue because it has bothered me that long and I don't think Hive will be able to remain uncensored if powerful accounts decide to downvote content for no logical reason.