I think there is a way to huge focus on rewards and downvotes are taken way too personally. I do strongly believe that a lot of the enormously voted posts about hive deserve some decent sized downvotes too.
Why is the user experience horrid? If you put a video on youtube and get 1000 upvotes and 10 downvotes is that not something you'd expect?
RE: Super Positive Headline and It's Even A Hive Post!