There are a lot of trumped up little dictators on Hive using their downvotes to boost their own fragile egos. It hurts the platform and drives away new users. Standing up to them and exposing downvote abuse as you are doing here can help stop this happening. And it has been increasing recently so now is the time to speak up.
RE: Why was this travel-related post muted for not being travel-enough and why are mutes hidden like flagged downvoted content?