I didn't see the post in question. I dislike when people are silenced on any issue.

Downvotes are part of HIVE. I can't make them go away. The best way to deal with this feature is for people to talk about when and where downvoting is appropriate.

IMHO: Downvotes should be geared to improving behavior on the forum. Downvotes should always start with communication.

I've downvoted phishing attempts, spam and plagiarized content.

Some people post images without crediting the source. There are legal issues involved in violating the copyright of content creator. For legal reasons HiveWatchers aggressively downvotes copyright violations.

The downvote campaigns don't work if the person doesn't understand the reason for the downvote.

HIVE currently has problems with tags-spam. I support tribes and communities that downvote posts that are not appropriate for the tribe.

In all cases, except phishing, people should talk about the reasons for the downvoting before engaging in downvoting ... otherwise the behavior won't stop.

Hmmm, I just looked through your posts. I saw that you were marketing a free upvote bot in 2018. That campaign looks like spam to me.

The massive number of bots had an ill effect on SteemIt. I understand that there are coordinated campaigns against bots.

Other than the fact that you failed to cite the sources of your images, it looks like current posts are taking a better direction.