It'll be tough to normalize downvotes when they're being used on normal people for doing normal things. Normalizing a downvote means folks should feel comfortable using downvotes to help combat abuse. Nobody here posting legitimately is in control of who votes or how much they earn yet in this case and many others people are being penalized, again, for something they had no control over. If a downvote removes $1 from a post, the difference between downvoting abuse and downvoting something normal is downvoting abuse removes toxicity and downvoting something normal creates it. The reward pool still gets its dollar back regardless. Why not make it normal to remove the abuse and toxicity? Look at the reason given here for the downvotes. It's pathetic. Then that member came here to act like a bully afterwards. How is that even cool? It's not. Go bully a plagiarist. Get applauded. Be normal.