I’ve always seen him as fairly positive person, just protective of the platform. Unfortunately not everyone always agrees with each other on how to behave in this evolving environment we’ve created, and that’s just always a bit messy. I almost left Steemit back in the day due to seeing so much of that.
Luckily in my little skate community it wasn’t like that, so now we’re continuing to grow, and plan to launch a tribe soon. But to scale that to the rest of Hive, we need the people who want to best for the platform to set good examples like this, and create a dialogue so that new people understand what is going on rather than being scared away by it.
Too many people come for the money, but fail to ever try to understand the philosophy behind the economics. Which is why a DV often create negative backlash, even when it’s done with good intentions.
One idea I had would be a drop down with the different reasons why you are DVing, and an other option where you have to write a small note explaining why the DV was done. Also since the reason is clear, perhaps the person downvoting remains anonymous, but that itself could still be an issues, so I am still debating that idea with myself.
Oh and for the record. I like skate culture from the little I interacted with it. I do not skateboard or anything but I've had friends that do in my life. This is the only reason I am not really a member of your community. I enjoy talking to the people but I've never really done much in that particular sport. Where I grew up there was a shortage of surfaces that were conducive to truly getting into that.