What are best practices to avoid down votes ?
Aside from the usual suspects such as spelling, grammar, formatting etc. I have been considering not replying to any comments on my articles/answers as well as not commenting on anyone else's answers as this seems to be one way that trolls single you out. Kind of like in real life but here online, there are no repercussions for them as there would be in real life.
3)Don't copy and paste content.
4)Don't make posts of low quality.
Downvotes do affect reputation score of a steemit user and it can also make the user loose the earnings on his or her contents on steemit,the
best practices to make in other to prevent downvotes is that you should make sure that your
contents are fit to be on the steemit platform,ensure that the content is a good
content,ensure that you are not spamming everywhere on steemit,ensure that you do not
downvote others too for no reason,also make sure that you are not abusive to other steemians on the steemit platform..
start making good content because when a bad content comes in trending section then the whales downvote them and also avoid arguments and begging for votes on some"s profile .