I hear you and know exactly what you’re talking about. Thankfully I’ve never been the subject of a significant downvote but it is indeed a bit of a crazy system where people post pictures of small things and get big upvotes but people who put hours of effort into theirs, get almost nothing. I’ve put more of my energies in commenting and looking for new people to the platform and getting them situated and familiar with some of this stuff. No one likes getting downvoted away but if someone who’s been here for a long time can at least explain it to them, and what to do differently, they have a chance of making it longer on here.

One of my least favorite things lately is this kind of bogus ‘decentralized blacklist’ feature that’s been started. I get the purpose of it but I feel like this will be extensively abused by some and that’s sad.