I am totally agreeing with you but
You use the payout downvote option when there is an issue with the perceived value of the post - and there is no flaw related to the post itself or its author. Instead, this is a legitimate part of your curation efforts.
think about all those other posters hunting a trending rank that will payout downvote everything else. And there is created spam/troll payout downvoting. I can safely assume that more than 50% of the authors and newly backed users will do that.
And another but: this payout downvote can be countered with some account filters like:
- account older than xx days (weeks, months, whatever) not hours
- account power higher than xx vesting shares
- account value higher than xx
- voting power higher than xx%
- post count higher than xx posts
Filtering the downvote rights will make it a bit more safe for the community.
Right now they can also do it by using (or misusing) the flag. But they don't (at least most of them). Good authors have their reputation at stake which prevents them from misbehaving.
Totally true but i wasn't saying about good authors with reputation but about the ones who want to succeed in any way, including downvoting everything, and i have seen many.
But those guys won't be able to make any significant impact on the payout - most of them don't have much Steem Power.
1 .. 10 .. 20 .. probably not. Think high numbers of alt accounts created especially for this: 100+ that would make an impact.
Fortunately, it's not the number of accounts that matters but the amount of Steem Power they have.
@ i have got a downvote and my reputation is down at 12 i need some serious upvotes to increase my reputation please kindly upvote me so it help me