We all have seen the importance of up voting a post or comment on Steemit and the negative effects of down voting - which can be seen sometimes as a good thing especially when it involves scammers , plagiarists and spammers.
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Note: This post is to lift our steemit community spirit: All for One-One For All and not to take sides.
I am 1+ month here , but have seen how steemit community has come together to help a steemian in need through sending in SBD or simply upvoting the persons post. This is very motivational and helps us to sign up new members to this great community. Conversely, however, I have also seen how down voting a member post to zero resulted to big division in the community. For instance, 
Hive account@fulltimegeek down voted 
Hive account@craig-grant post to zero accusing him and his wife 
Hive account@yuliana of a crime -which was escalated by 
Hive account@matrixdweller here however Hive account@yuliana explained about the issue excellently here: during her introduction post. This issue led to division of our community and people throwing verbal blows - resulting to Hive account@craig-grant quitting steemit for a while (the great news is that he came back stronger and currently posting daily).
Moreover, I also noticed that the community holiday favorite blogger 
Hive account@sweetsssj posts were down voted by 
Hive account@dan and recently, what surprised me was to see 2 posts by 
Hive account@officialfuzzy being down voted by 
Hive account@ned even though the posts were about project information’s that support steemians via the BeyondBit and Whaleshares hangout. This caused some steemians examples, 
Hive account@joseph , 
Hive account@walterz , 
Hive account@patelincho , 
Hive account@anritco , 
Hive account@eirik and 
Hive account@siddartha (to mention few) to post about the issue (rightfully) demanding explanation from Hive account@ned and for the action to stop.
Even though , I support the issue to stop because I respect and support Hive account@officialfuzzy plans in supporting projects on steemit, plus his use of whaleshares tokens to help steemians in need -we should , however , not come to a premature conclusion without knowing the underlying issues / facts. Hopefully, Hive account@ned and Hive account@dan will send an official explanations for their actions and this down voting will be resolved (The explanation will help other members to avoid such mistakes -if any).
On the other hand, a clear and undisputed use of down voting and steem power was executed by 
Hive account@ausbitbank down voting a scammer whose thread had about 60 comments, all with ~3400 votes from the same voting trail that seems to be lead by 
Hive account@ecoworld .
See link here and judge for yourself. This is a clear advantage of downvoting and thus Hive account@ausbitbank should be praised and supported for his action.
In conclusion, steemit is great when we work together as one community , up vote fellow members in order to motivate them to continue posting great contents and yes down vote those that want to take advantage of our community and not those that disagree with our point of view. Importantly, down voting members posts just to punish or intimidate them will surely cause harm to our steemit community because it is a clear abuse of power.
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