It's pretty obvious that downvotes are necessary. Just look at Blurt and the shit goes on there. Last time I paid any attention to it, they wanted to give the witnesses to remove full earnings potential from any individual. Just downvotes except controlled by a few and full downvotes.
If you don't like the downvotes you are getting on Hive, there's always second layer tokens that you can participate in. People are stupid is really what I've learned.
So they ended up wanting to be a centralized platform. Just people not knowing what they want and then having what they want and realizing it's not really what they need.
A wise sage I know said this.
"People are lame." - sage of the internet 2020
I find the 2nd layer being as profitable if not more than the first layer provided you are really doing well on a niche and not pissing other people off on that second layer.
Exactly, I just mentioned this to someone yesterday, if you don't like that you're getting downvoted and there's no one around or wants to help you once you've made a case that you don't deserve the downvotes, you can cushion the blow with L2. Most of the time people are happy to help counter even if it means less curation reward returns for them, it's the right thing to do on malicious downvotes if the content isn't overrewarded or it's just something personal, you'll help the other voters on said posts get some returns back as well that way. If people don't want to counter them, there's usually a reason and it's not always cause they don't want to be targetted by downvotes themselves.