You left the part out about down votes and how they take away what was donated to you via upvotes. And that being DV can be used to counter abuse abuse but is often misused to flag rewards away for non other than being a different thinker than the other. And that shadow banning does exist.

https://peakd.com/hive/@khrom/the-downvote-economy-how-to-steal-the-value-of-someone-s-work-and-get-rich-off-their-efforts

https://peakd.com/hive/@khrom/why-downvotes-contradict-decentralization-a-mathematical-perspective