@dreemit

I can't reply to your comment since there is a limit on reply nesting, so I'll comment here

A few thoughts and some questions for clarification. It was my understanding ...

The downvote is to be used however the voter thinks is best. Everyone owns her or her own vote power and there are no "official rules" on such things here.

As you say, when a post is downvoted and the reward is reduced, that goes out to other posts and comments; the reward pool is a fixed amount per day so voting is just all about how to distribute it. Downvoting one post does not mean that post is worthless trash (necessarily; in some cases it could), it means a belief on the part of the voter that the allocation of rewards to that post is excessive.

All of this is subjective. You ask if it weren't a repeated pattern would that make a difference and the answer can only be "maybe". I see plenty of things on the site that I disagree with or look "off" to me, but as a one-time occurrence I often just let it go. When it becomes a pattern of what in my subjective opinion is misallocation of rewards then I am more likely to bother to express that. As others know, I'm certainly not singling out @krnel here, and I'm not saying there is anything inherently wrong with his posts, I just think at least some of the rewards better used elsewhere.