Neat experiment....I'm glad I didn't post recently ;)

Relatively speaking upvote abuse is more burdensome for Hive than downvote abuse, even if being downvoted stings more.

Being downvoted for no good reason (because you got upvoted is a reason) deters individuals from staying on Hive and makes the atmosphere less friendly. However rampant upvote abuse (vote buying and trading and seeing crap content over rewarded) deters a lot of people from getting involved with Hive, too and makes it appear like a pyramid to no-Hivers.

For people who think it is unfair to give downvotes more time to shine, perhaps we can disallow downvotes for the first 12 hours after a post is made =p