Hasn't a few of the tribes disabled downvotes? I don't even see the option on Blurt.
All i am trying to say is that if you let these downvotes get to you mentally, then you're going to have tough time here, and it's going to ruin your experience. Hive is not perfect, yet. We still have a lot to do before we could even come close to calling it a finished product, and these are the discussions we have to have to determine the future of Hive.
Disagreements are never fun, but if we want a free and open platform, that will always happen unless we create a bubble, and no one wants that. I wish we didn't have downvotes, but we also had a lot of abuse and bot usage on Hive before we implemented that, so I don't want to go back to that, and at the same time I am sad to see this also get used in such a way that harms discussions too.
I guess i don't know the perfect solution, but I hope that us all having this discussion is a way to work through those things, even if we all get a few downvotes in the process.
Stay strong man, eventually people will see where your heart stands, and they'll be glad you were willing to speak out.