RE: Why is Hive not growing?

I agree that downvoting people don't really bring any value to a chain other than bad blood. While they say it's to protect the reward pool against scammers, I believe that we should chose another path for that, which respects users more and gives them the opportunity to correct their errors and improve. Downvote trails are synonym to say: "hey we don't want you here anymore, bugger off"...