Voted for

• No, I don't.

Without downvotes, more and more users would take the route of zero effort to extract as much from the reward pool as they can uncontested.

Whaleshares removed downvotes and they quickly regretted it when even top witnesses were posting "account preservation posts" just to retain all their voting power instead of participating.

While it may seem downvotes are violence and they give you shortness of breathe, without them Steem would go to $0 as no one will want to participate.

Even the Government realizes the need for checks and balances.