This is a good question.
One of the tricky concepts of the Steemit and now Hive platform is reward pool and downvotes.

As I understand it, upvotes direct to authors and curators a portion of the reward pool, each day, but the rewards don’t belong to you until day seven, when everyone has voted to direct rewards to the afore going or to reduce the same rewards. So my understanding is they are not your rewards until day seven. But I have been downvoted and lost all my rewards, and it still hurts, it still seems unfair and I still wish downvotes didn’t exist.

Secondly, I understand the argument that the downvotes don’t erase the post, they just erase the rewards. I understand why that statement is correct in an absolute sense, in that the words and pictures have not been removed. But the monetary reimbursement has been. This is considered behavioral modification.

The difference between this behavior modification and censorship is the preservation of the content. But we must recognize the negative aspects of this, but I believe it is a solution to worse forms of behavioral modification like censorship, account termination, etc..

I hope we have a better solution in the future.

Second, the concept of hidden posts. While you are correct, hidden posts are not visible when the page loads, but they aren’t deleted, and to read them you just click on them. Because the posts are still there, and because anyone who wishes to see the post, can see the post, I don’t consider it censorship.

This two is a reluctant action, but is the best we have, until we create something better, which is adopted by the majority.

I think any solution to this issue will be controversial, but I hope we can change it to a more tempered response in the future.

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