The problem with downvoting is that the author takes it personally anytime and the first response is to feel threatened and you want to downvote in return. This is a natural response and it generates negative emotions. 

**Why, when I write a post does one downvote hurt me but the 160 upvotes are likely to skip my mind?**

It's because of the negative emotions that are linked to it. These negative emotions can have a big impact on an user and it can lead him to quit steem on a bad day.

### The probably best downvote strategy on steem
- Don't use it immediately. If you believe that somebody did something bad, write a comment tell him that he risks a downvote in the future. 

I believe that its not wrong to downvote spam or plagiarisme but there is no need to search for a reason to downvote others. In the long term we are hurting ourselves. If a downvote is responsible for a user to leave steem, then this downvote not only leads this guy to power down and sell his steem, it also anhilates all the steem that this guy could have powered up during the next years to come...

  

Good post to say the fact...thanks for the heads-up.

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This was the major reason why i left steemit in the first place. It is the big boys world. The world where small fishes are fishes while whales make themselves bigger and then perk on small fishes because they have the power to.

P.s: I sent a message to you on telegram, i hope you read it. Thanks

Hope all is well soon .

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I have seen that comments already in the post and this reason to downvote is like a joke. Downvote is power given to us that we should use when find someone posting spam or abusing the system. 
There is no such condition that one has to use it. Its completely user's decision to use it or not and like the same we we do with upvote. No should force anyone to use DV and just because user is not using downvote then no DV should be given to that user.

I personally think this kind of acts will harm our blockchain where even freedom is not given to choose. Can we expect mass adoption this way? I am promoting steem with all my friends and relatives but if this trend continues then I would have to stop promotion this will not be helpful for our platform and community.

As you mentioned we are already a small community and if we need to grow then we have to move beyond all this things and do something productive for Steem rather than harming our own blockchain. 

Thanks @crypto.piotr for raising your voice against it and I hope more people would come forward to support and to stop this downvote abuse.

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@cripto.piotrhola. La verdad no entiendo el porque de su downvote: cuando entre a mi cartera, me entere de su decisión, me asombro mucho su acción(extrema); No recuerdo tener relación con likwid, ni haber comentado algún post con ese nombre.

No obstante que puedan tener razones de sus conflictos. No es algo que a mi en lo particular me atañe, no he usado "el downvote", sencillamente, porque aun no he visto nada que me motive a esto. Para mi usar esa herramienta y expresar abiertamente, (no solo rechazar un post sino ir en contra de este) molestia  y desagrado es de suma responsabilidad y seriedad.

No pido explicaciones ni siento culpabilidad por transitar steemit. Solo soy un participante mas y como todo es posible, quizás , tal vez, puede ser, que sea yo el equivocado y esto lo digo porque es tan reciente mi entrada aquí, que no me ha sido posible aun conocer bien esta comunidad y sus reglas.

Reconozco que todo es posible y por mas extraño que a mi me parezca, quizás lo que hace usted,puede no ser tan descabellado y en cambio yo este errado.

reciba usted cordiales saludos y que tenga un buen dia.

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What a dink

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1. I do not enjoy your wallet messages. That is pure spam. Going on for a long time. But you can do it because the system allows you to do it.

2. You write a post to make your thinking visible on DV. Great! System allows you to do it.

3. System also allows people to DV your post. If they disagree with the rewards. Read the steem white paper please.

4. So far you have complained about DV on comments. You never wrote a complaining post about it. Now you did.

5. Bad idea. 

This is my first and last communication to you on the subject.

Dear @crypto.piotr. After I read your post and I thought, what do you say about **_DOWNVOTE_**. And I totally agree with your opinion on this matter.
The **_STEEMIT_** blog has launched a bot to detect posts that smell fraudulent or the like. But why doesn't the **_STEEMIT_** blog launch a bot to detect **_DOWNVOTE_** misuse?
![line.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/block.token/4zlXd2e7-line.png)

I think there's a culture of victimhood that makes it worse than it is, everyone has the right to upvote and downvote anything as they please. Be it due to the content or the person and relationships they have with various stakeholders

I'm not here to take sides I feel that is a waste of time, I'm only here to defend everyone's freedom to choose what they do. The who where and why of where steem is allocated is irrelevant in my opinion and trying to say who should have it and what they should do with it isn't up to us, but the individual. 

I feel the market regulates itself over time.

I downvote every day to anyone who purchases upvotes and get my fair share of downvotes in return. I know personal opinions are hard to put aside and you have the right to feel however you want but I just feel its a microcosm of the bigger picture. 

At the end of the day, we all just want to distribute the inflation that all upvotes and downvotes do 

I wish you would stop spamming people's wallets.