The Economic *Improvement* Proposal (EIP) from HF21 had three parts: 1) a superlinear reward curve *converging* to linear after enough SP voting for a post 2) a 50/50% reward split between author and curators 3) a free downvote pool allowing 2.5 free downvotes per day I'll focus on the latter. Before and even after the introduction of the free downvote pool, I had plenty concerns about it (as I had about all three points actually), but I said I'll think about if I'll use my free downvotes or not after all. It turns out that till this day I abstained from using them because I don't want to be dragged in the negativity surrounding the exchanges of flags, even if occasionally I disagree with some content from various points of view (like tag abuse, for example). I made [my position clear about this continuous war](https://steempeak.com/flag-wars/@gadrian/is-there-a-way-for-us-not-to-get-sucked-into-the-new-flag-war) some time ago, and nothing changed to make me feel otherwise. I am wondering if you use your daily downvotes. And if you feel like explaining further, then what motivates you?

At some point in the past I've seen statements that HF21 will fight bidbots. That didn't seem like a true statement, since at least two out of three measures from the EIP (the new reward curve and the