I allocated my downvote power to a couple of respected downvote trails (while on a break from online activity) and rarely checked it until recently when I decided to have a look at what they were downvoting.

Most of the downvotes I agreed with but on one trail there were a few dvs that seemed rather personal and not content or reward related so I cancelled my downvote allocation to all downvote trails.

I thought we had left the drama behind when we forked off from the shitshow of steem.

I don't always comment but often read his posts. I've become a bit of a lurker recently.I do use an auto voter when I'm not available and all the authors I support are good community members who rarely get double digit rewards. @tarazkp is a great contributor to hive and is on my auto voter.

I manually curate new users who get little or no rewards. Some of them are trying really hard and deserve some recognition for their efforts. No Shakespeare's yet but they are trying to figure out how to make content.

That's how I feel it should be.

For those new people reading this.

Find new users who get virtually no rewards and support them if they are at least trying to create decent content.

Focus on the positive and let the bigger accounts worry about downvoting the abusers. They can handle a flag war.

Content creation is a skill that you too can learn with enough practice.