Bookmarked, a nice explanation of how things run here. Honestly, I personally do ask the question why I got upvoted. I don't like auto-votes. I enjoy the benefit, yes, SL is a costly mistress. But I do miss honest and critical feedback. And downvotes do not provide that, either, at least when it's not explained. I rather have a downvote and someone giving me feedback on my writing, then auto-upvotes. But the few times I received downvotes, it was without any explanation at at all. Not even a "You suck."
That would be my only complaint. I can't even say that it's a big echo-chamber on HIVE, as most comments do provide a different perspective on the written, though mostly picking up the positive. At least for me, not being a whale (yet), so I don't get leech-comments.
I have given explanations for my personal downvotes always. I have done that as a courtesy and I do not have to do it. I receive a lot of downvotes, never received or expected any explanation.
I know, I think you never down-voted me. Anyway, do you think little feedback boxes would help? Like when you cancel a subscription? When you click on "down-vote", a pop-up pops up and let's you leave a little direct message, or select an answer.
I didn’t. I never downvoted most people:) This is the normal trend. Most people don’t realize that. I have upvoted tens of thousands of people but downvoted tens of people. So difference is perhaps 4 orders of magnitude.