I don't recommend it at all, but you can validate my claims yourself by downvoting your own content, or asking a higher reputation person to downvote you. Again, I do NOT recommend it simply on the basis of proving something! :) But you can do that if you wanted to...

Also, I'm confident that if you take a look around, engage the Steemit network for a few months, you'll come to the same conclusion, or at least understand from where I'm coming.