Even though I had some issues understanding this when it happened to me, it made (sort of) sense later on. However, I still think that there are lots of posts that deserve downvotes more than others and that there are quite a few guys who are privileged from this 'service' while some shouldn't get such a big downvote for nothing. Equally, it's hard not to think about the times from 2016-2017 when many people became rich over the night and no one downvoted their posts. Again, these are some personal thoughts without making reference to specific people but only speaking in general :)
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Yeah, back then downvotes literally cost people, i.e. they ate up upvote mana so most wouldn't use it as to not lose APR compared to everyone else, hence the "free downvote mana pool" which in some cases gets abused but they're thankfully very few of those cases. Those with a lot of stake who could abuse it the most are of course those who want to see the platform succeed so it kind of evens the risk out I think.