you wrote:
If ypu think of upvoting as the carrot, then downvoting is the whip.
From my perspective, downvoting on steemit is closer to declaring someone a war than just the whip.
Downvoting someone with more SP for creating shitty content fired back at so many people, that it's scary to use this tool.
Downvoting is a powerful tool being abused left and right and I would never recommend to use if you're not ready for a flag war.
@frankvvv
I agree with you :/