Hello Dan!

Great video again!

I'm passionate about being on #steem. I has become a part of my online home. It's like my irl office where I enjoy spending time, learning new things, letting the being amazed happen to me, and work too of course. It really is my favorite room. In my day job I often have to handle arguments and they're mostly constructive and I enjoy the discourse because it's all about great opportunities to learn something new.

Tbh I'm overwhelmed by the seemingly endless possibilities in #steem and especially the token space, that is constantly evolving and extending, straight up baffles me! A thing that's bothering me though a lot lately is the downvotes. I have to admit to me it's more a matter of frustration with how this happens, mostly by bot accounts or even some people "on a mission" to police content and comments of steemians that for instance use SBI or other voting circles. it's irrational I know, those downvotes have no really deep impact but when a post of mine that gets maybe 30, 50, 100 or even 200 upvotes (Yes, this sometimes happens and I love it!) those 4 to sometimes 6 downvotes started bothering me.

I'm not even bothered by the fact that these non posting accounts leave no possibility for retaliation, because I think this is really weak to go all eye for an eye on this, but this organizing "resistance" against SBI for instance made me question the whole downvoting policies as a whole.

I don't think that downvotes are good for #steem. The after HF21 era has clearly shown that the use of downvotes has lead to frustrations with many #steem users. Imo it is toxic to #steem to not make users pay for downvotes. I would even go further to say that upvotes and comments should be enough to express either agreement and liking of content and comments or not.

But I tend to accept this as an - to me at least - anomaly in here but I'm afraid that this frustrates fellow steemians so much that they even think of closing shop. I guess it's even worse for new users.

Dan, could you please give an feedback to if you see upvoting circles like SBI as an abuse of the pool like bid bots and upvoting services were?

If you think that SBI is questionable were do we draw a line?

Isn't it Ok anymore that befriended accounts upvote their content mutually?

Aren't there more important misuses of #steem's pool than this like the still ongoing self-upvoting of some of the bigger accounts even for example.

Cheers!
Lucky