Hi, @intellihandling,

At some point, I think that downvoting is a responsibility. As with all responsibilities, there will always be those who take it as such and do it well, and those who just take it as a game and abuse it. The only difference is that when it happens outside blockchain you have courts to help you stop the abusers, while in steem, you can only submit to it or join and anti-abuse circle.

I don't remember this one exactly, because it was during the period where I stopped coming on steem, disgusted by how it was big-shot driven. I had to take time and think about it, in the end, it's no better or worse than the rest of the world, the big always command, I think once you're at peace with that, you can be at ease here.