Well he said he acknowledges the need for downvotes on posts for plagiarism and spam but haven't seen him use his stake to support/downvote blatant posts that do fall under those categories.
Of course, many downvotes are justified in my eyes and probably in most other people's too - but many are not.
Sounds like acknowledging some cases downvotes are warranted but not necessarily contributing to the solution of normalizing downvotes.
RE: NEW Hive dApp: Hive Alive | Includes a 1st For Hive -> The UnTrending Report To Track Downvotes.