Personally, I have NEVER had to down vote anybody. However, there was an instance yesterday I did.

AS being somebody on this platform that I feel could help the smaller minnows, I post daily, a blog stating that I am willing to offer such help for a marginal fee. Well, I suppose this user knew about down voting but didn't have any SP (as it was a new account), yet they down voted my post. It didn't affect me at all in regards to my payout but the user stated it was in regard to fair distribution of the reward pool assuming that I am taking a huge percentage of it? But in retaliation, I down voted the only post he had a formidable payout on and completely wiped it out for them.

Upon realizing that the actions I took were not in any way acceptable to do, as it was a form of retaliation, today I went back to the users profile and removed the down vote so he could get his payout.

I felt bad for what I did and didn't want to destroy the perception of this person in regards to Steem. This platform has great potential and personally I would like this user to benefit from what I have to offer by my up votes.

I don't want to be mad at them for some dumb reason and I don't want them to quit because they're not getting what they want right away. IT is something that you have to work at and for to gain anything out of it.