◦•●◉✿ 𝓑𝓵𝔁𝔁𝓲𝓲 ✿◉●•◦

Written in response to: "Write about a character coming out of a long hibernation (either literal or metaphorical)." as part of Springtime Flowers.

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Dear Reedsy,

I've emailed you endless and endless times, however, you ignored. I NEED you to reply, please.

It's all about downvoting.

"Oh, this is just a thing about downvoting, B-O-R-I-N-G!"

And skip.

This is an important message, Reedsy.

My friend Ari Reynes, has been downvoted from 4,600 to 1,000. This is unacceptable and the hard-worked for points are gone-poof. This isn't a threat, but a lot of people are taking breaks from Reedsy.

I, myself, plan on leaving Reedsy for the sake of downvoters-(I am more concerned about my friends.)

This is a time when downvoters are striking the most-either from multiple accounts or just from teaming.

Sadly, the Marshmallows are practically gone.

I wasn't here when all that happened, however, I suspect that that's the reason why Marshmallows were created; the cause of downvoters.

I have just checked, and many of my friends were downvoted 5,000 points down. Literally. Want me to list a view? Sure! I'll gladly, but I bet that'll be the rest of the story.

Here's just a F E W, you may add to the list if you'd like.

Ari Reynes (4600-1,000.)

ᗩᗴᖇiᑎ ᗷ 💚 (31,010-28,000.)

💜ᴀ ᴍ ᴇ ᴛ ʜ ʏ ꜱ ᴛ 💜 (5,100-1,000.)

山.w. S𝓀y฿elle (3,000-1,000.)

𝕃𝕦𝕟𝕒 ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕟 (2,000-1,000.)

✯ ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕔 𝕊𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕒𝕝𝕤 ✯ (4,900-1,000.)

ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕒 𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕨 🏳️‍🌈 (2,000-1,000.)

𝒞𝑒𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓉☯ 𝑀𝒶𝒿🔮𝓀𝓀𝓊 𝒮𝒽𝒾𝓃🦋𝒷𝓊 (10,000-1,000.)

As you can see, downvoting is making people feel...Hurtful. Perhaps it may sound stupid just to quit Reedsy just because of some stupid downvoters-well, it is. Wanna know why? 'Cuz your friends are just gonna be there and upvote you. When I was downvoted, it was a battle between them and my friends (obviously my friends won.) Thanks to them, I'm above 1k, without...I'd be at 0.

The upvoting button SHOULD BE A THING.

The downvoting button SHOULDN'T BE A THING.

Reedsy, I doubt you'll ever see this message because...

1. You never respond to my emails.

2. Your boss would never (probably) see this.

3. You'd let the downvoting button exist anyway even after everyone left Reedsy, huh?

All I'm applying is:

Remove that downvote button.

Remove that down-arrow.

Sigh here (Reedsy name) as a petition to remove downvoting. If the word count get's too much, then make a new one. Like this story if you want the downvoting button removed so it can get to the very top. If it wasn't clear enough, delete one "Reedsy author here" sentence and put your Reedsy name there.

◦•●◉✿ 𝓑𝓵𝔁𝔁𝓲𝓲 ✿◉●•◦

ꊰꏂꋬꋪ꒒ꏂꇙꇙ ꊰꄲꉧ

💜ᴀ ᴍ ᴇ ᴛ ʜ ʏ ꜱ ᴛ 💜

山.w. S𝓀y฿elle

𝒞𝑒𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓉☯ 𝑀𝒶𝒿🔮𝓀𝓀𝓊 𝒮𝒽𝒾𝓃🦋𝒷𝓊

ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕒 𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕨 🏳️‍🌈

꧁⭑⭒ ɩɣƴ Ƈƛʀƭєʀ ⭑⭒꧂

Felicity Anne

ᗩᗴᖇiᑎ ᗷ 💚

Вlᗩƶ🏆 Ｒ𝕪🐲 ҝㄚ🔥ｊ𝓊尺ⓞ

𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 🍒😸

Meera Lakshmi

Keefe Sencen

✯ ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕔 𝕊𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕒𝕝𝕤 ✯

Abigail Cross

Sia Sharma

𝕃𝕦𝕟𝕒 ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕟

B. W.

𝙸𝚜𝚊𝚊𝚌 𝙰𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚗

Keya M.

Akshaya Sutrave

Ari Reynes

♥♠𝔼𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝕍𝕒𝕔𝕒𝕔𝕒𝕤♦♣

Cassandra Durnin

Maya Emerson

𝔸𝕓𝕚𝕘𝕒𝕚𝕝 ℂ𝕣𝕠𝕤𝕤 (♡𝓓𝓻𝓪𝓰𝓸𝓷 𝓒𝓵𝓸𝓾𝓭𝓼𝓾𝓻𝓰𝓮♡)

𝕊𝕚𝕒 𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕞𝕒 ❇

Akshaya Sutrave

Mira Caplan

Radhika Diksha

♥♠𝔼𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝕍𝕒𝕔𝕒𝕔𝕒𝕤♦♣

Devaki 🎉

𝒮𝒶𝓅𝓅𝒽𝒾𝓇𝑒 💎

✨𝓐𝓻𝔂𝓪✨ 🦋

Jay Dmer

Izzie Q.

Luna Wood

Ashlynn S.

Kate Mengal

🕊 🎀 𝒱𝒶𝓇𝓈𝒽𝒶 𝒱𝒾𝓂𝒶𝓁 🎀 🕊

Samantha Langley

Reedsy author here

Posted Mar 23, 2021

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Aerin Rebecca ✨🌈

March 30, 2021 15:26

Hold up, u were dv’ed to 666 again! UHMMM

Felicity Anne

March 29, 2021 17:11

Hey, just letting you know, I had around 3,000 points but I'm down to around 715 now. You can add me to the list. :(