That's the thing. Value is subjective. This is why I believe downvoting should be reserved for rule breaking of some kind like vote farming or plagiarism. If you don't like something, don't consume it. It's none of your business whether someone else likes it enough to give it a vote. They deserve every genuine upvote they get. I believe that the practice of downvoting for the purpose of curation has caused a lot of good content creators to leave the platform in the past. And by good, I don't mean content that I like or would consume, I mean content that drew new users to the platform and delighted some users here enough that it was profitable for those creators. Once it became unprofitable due to targeted downvoting campaigns, those people left, and probably most of their followers with them, along with any newcomers they would have continued to draw in. If we want to present ourselves as a free speech and censorship resistant community, curative downvoting is certainly damaging to that reputation.