There's a recent whale which purchased up some HP that never seems to have really interacted with the broader Hive community and now are. I've noticed they're downvoting people and their reason is simply "It's content I just didn't like."
This is what I hate about the way they can be used. Instead of just not reading/watching/engaging, the downvote is used and someone's earned rewards (plus time and effort into the post which isn't even guaranteed to get any rewards) are decreased.
Understandable when it's posts that are abuse. Plagiarism or some sort of farming. But say you go into the Hive Gaming community and hate gaming, then downvote the posts because you didn't like the game being talked about, what are you even doing at that point? These are the sorts of people we don't want nor need on Hive, especially at this point where user numbers and activity have been dropping off alongside the price. So many names have disappeared out of thin air, so many people have left recently and just said they're done for one reason or another. We should be encouraging people to stick around and finding incentives to get people here in the first place.
What good is it if we do get people here and the first thing they get is a downvote because someone didn't like the city they travelled to and posted about?
It sucks we've reached this point. I don't think a community reset would mean anything, given this recent example.