IMO its not that new people don't understand the 7 day rule. If you see your post upvoted by a lot of members like me (with a small stake) and you accumulate a few HIVE as a reward from those, and then comes a single person with high stake and negates all those peoples opinion with a single downvote, that's a problem. When curation accounts are involved too, that's a whole new level of mess.
I can't remember where I read it but when I first joined, someone made a post about how thankful they were for every vote...Even if it was worth 0.01 Hive...And I agree....Every single one...I'm so thankful for!