Yeah agree with you - that downvotes are necessary. As Hive users increase over time, I do hope that these mechanisms can be improved so that we try to improve on the accuracy of penalising more of the bad users and less of the good users (unintentionally).

Yeah I have received some bigger downvotes in rare instances, but they were generally for posts that have higher post rewards (>$30) so I can still accept the rationale given the one off nature of such occurrences.

Thanks for sharing your view! Will try not to take them less personally going forward. :)