I wholeheartedly support normalization of downvotes!

It's been frustrating to me to see downvotes used pretty much to enhance flame wars in the past. That sort of stuff also did a lot to discourage me from making any in my early days as I didn't want to get caught up in that.

Over time I've learned that downvotes are the first line of defense for our precious reward pool, and one of the essential ways we can help support everyone's rewards in the face of abuse.

Ever since the addition of a separate mana pool for downvotes I've been more keen on using it rather than sort of wasting what I would get by letting it sit at 100%. Especially now with the move to Hive I've been giving out more downvotes. Mostly for what seems like spam to me, but I'm on the lookout for opportunities every time I get online just like for upvotes.