They aren't a good thing. The downvotes should be treated as a flag or a report function like it used to... Now you're just giving more power to whales to freely downvote with impunity against smaller channels... and now tribes actively run separate accounts to downvote people to protect either their shittokens and or their other projects.
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Hello @esecholo,
thanks for your comment and vote!
The poll so far seems to be clearly on the "Downvotes are bad for #steem" side.
Although I've read a few comments and arguments pro downvotes that seem to make sense to me. I still think the potential for misuse of the after HF 21 possibilities in regard to downvotes is high.
...also, #steem is so much different form other social media platforms or other crypto projects. Not at last because of it's wonderful, wide range of possibilities. But especially the tribe and token stuff on here brought a new level of complexity into this that I'm having a hard time to keep up with tbh. Hahaha!
So I always wonder what this might make as some first impressions to a #steem n00b. Especially when they will also look at the whole downvote thing and that it isn't so uncommon for newer accounts to come under heavy fire.
I'm afraid the toxicity of downvotes could turn out to be the biggest problem for #steem.
Cheers!
Lucky