Steemit gives us the opportunity to upvote and to downvote content.There are multiple good but also multiple bad reasons why someone might want to use the ability to downvote posts or comments.

This post isn't meant to judge downvoters in any way, either positively or negatively, but only to allow everyone an easy way to Watch The Watchers so to speak. To see steemit policing at work.

The script that generated this post monitors downvotes all day and looks up the potential voting weight of the down voter in order to weigh the votes. Currently the script does not account for voting power out of performance and script-lag considerations.

The below lists show the top accounts involved in high powered down voted on both sides of the downvoting process.Numbers displayed are normalized to a single vote by an account with 1 MVEST worth of active Voting Weight (MVVW) and only entries with at least 50 MVVW are displayed.

Top downvoters:

@steemcleaners 20477 MVVW : steemd
@haejin 20035 MVVW : steemd
@ranchorelaxo 10294 MVVW : steemd
@adm 4774 MVVW : steemd
@ned 4249 MVVW : steemd
@randowhale 3116 MVVW : steemd
@spaminator 2961 MVVW : steemd
@ozchartart 2027 MVVW : steemd
@dan 1990 MVVW : steemd
@troglodactyl 1578 MVVW : steemd
@greenman 1422 MVVW : steemd
@libertyteeth 1249 MVVW : steemd
@steemed-proxy 1048 MVVW : steemd
@newsflash 817 MVVW : steemd
@mammasitta 637 MVVW : steemd
@vcelier 533 MVVW : steemd
@gamer00 520 MVVW : steemd
@tuck-fheman 464 MVVW : steemd
@kusadasi 391 MVVW : steemd
@ngc 357 MVVW : steemd
@rewardpoolrape 316 MVVW : steemd
@speakyourmind 290 MVVW : steemd
@extrospect 255 MVVW : steemd
@mack-bot 229 MVVW : steemd
@hwawol 207 MVVW : steemd
@tamim 173 MVVW : steemd
@themonetaryfew 129 MVVW : steemd
@berniesanders 127 MVVW : steemd
@littleboy 115 MVVW : steemd
@joshbreslauer 104 MVVW : steemd
@transisto 96 MVVW : steemd
@chryspano 96 MVVW : steemd
@reddust 91 MVVW : steemd
@morning 90 MVVW : steemd
@tuvokhl 89 MVVW : steemd
@marketingmonk 75 MVVW : steemd
@thecopypasta 74 MVVW : steemd
@crypt0 70 MVVW : steemd
@felixxx 66 MVVW : steemd
@uradick 55 MVVW : steemd
@almost-digital 50 MVVW : steemd

Top downvoted:

@themarkymark 11700 MVVW : steemd
@haejin 8319 MVVW : steemd
@maticpecovnik 4836 MVVW : steemd
@teamsteem 4249 MVVW : steemd
@svashta 3454 MVVW : steemd
@ainal 3254 MVVW : steemd
@tripadvisor.com 3036 MVVW : steemd
@acehbot 2920 MVVW : steemd
@marketingmonk 2763 MVVW : steemd
@nasional 2735 MVVW : steemd
@farmingbot 2712 MVVW : steemd
@tuck-fheman 2060 MVVW : steemd
@moses153 1771 MVVW : steemd
@minnow.helper 1578 MVVW : steemd
@originate 1552 MVVW : steemd
@powerman99 1397 MVVW : steemd
@tuvokhl 1388 MVVW : steemd
@geronimo 1381 MVVW : steemd
@heajin 1255 MVVW : steemd
@cryptovestor 1206 MVVW : steemd
@singhrajat 1149 MVVW : steemd
@dgtoons 1127 MVVW : steemd
@berniesanders 922 MVVW : steemd
@moniristi 790 MVVW : steemd
@justinashby 788 MVVW : steemd
@moeknows 692 MVVW : steemd
@danknugs 690 MVVW : steemd
@randowhale 670 MVVW : steemd
@slapbox 665 MVVW : steemd
@daily-science 641 MVVW : steemd
@steeminator3000 629 MVVW : steemd
@sukhen1155 619 MVVW : steemd
@rahul72 611 MVVW : steemd
@baveva 564 MVVW : steemd
@flippedcrypt 485 MVVW : steemd
@btcnesw 464 MVVW : steemd
@libertyteeth 455 MVVW : steemd
@steem-network 330 MVVW : steemd
@michaellamden68 290 MVVW : steemd
@steem82 267 MVVW : steemd
@rudirock 266 MVVW : steemd
@hellocity 255 MVVW : steemd
@zua 234 MVVW : steemd
@thecandal 223 MVVW : steemd
@noganoo 208 MVVW : steemd
@rocannon 200 MVVW : steemd
@jaredcwillis 185 MVVW : steemd
@noorzaidurrani 158 MVVW : steemd
@gmrbotswana 157 MVVW : steemd
@abdur1122 154 MVVW : steemd
@xiknybuc 135 MVVW : steemd
@sajumiah 122 MVVW : steemd
@bookguy 115 MVVW : steemd
@scarlet7 113 MVVW : steemd
@hrhridoy 110 MVVW : steemd
@coinlend 107 MVVW : steemd
@pritish1122 96 MVVW : steemd
@michelhenry 93 MVVW : steemd
@zoneboy 88 MVVW : steemd
@sharif77 88 MVVW : steemd
@dubvdave 74 MVVW : steemd
@nonameslefttouse 67 MVVW : steemd
@mgarcia6278 66 MVVW : steemd
@faissalchahid 65 MVVW : steemd
@seniorpower 65 MVVW : steemd
@steemfirst 65 MVVW : steemd
@greenwhell79 65 MVVW : steemd
@mhmtdr0 65 MVVW : steemd
@rozhkovilyafuk 63 MVVW : steemd
@prohorovl 56 MVVW : steemd
@walden 55 MVVW : steemd
@chiney 52 MVVW : steemd
@veronikasaskova8 51 MVVW : steemd
@prokhorovgrigo 51 MVVW : steemd
@sportions 50 MVVW : steemd
@usahevgrigorij 50 MVVW : steemd
@upfish 50 MVVW : steemd

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Image used: Le faux miroir by René Magritt

Watching The Watchers: Top steemit flags/downvotes for 2018-01-03

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