Reducing rewards late after a post has had its time to shine (which often is subjective if it even deserved it to begin with and stakeholders should be able to use their downvotes in that regard as well) shouldn't be seen as surpression. Have you guys never used any other platforms with downvotes such as Reddit? Do people go around yelling censorship and surpression there when quality content gets missed or just isn't lucky enough to get to trending? They don't. It's even more important to use your downvotes here as there's also stake on the line that comes from all holders. Not just that but we also have the transparency to see who the downvoters are and judge their behavior and counter them if they're overdone or personal/malicious. If you get enough people to want to defend you depends on you. I'm sure the downvote system can be more finetuned but saying it's censorship and surpression isn't really the full truth. It's kind of like saying all upvotes are supressing any niche that doesn't get any rewards, like original porn content for instance. Damn all stakeholders who haven't incentivized it with enough rewards are the reason there is none on Hive! Surpression!!