I was just listening to @Ned in an interview and to quote Ned, the CEO of Steemit Inc. on the question of "downvoting" he said,

"One thing we have learned is Downvoting is BAD. The only thing they should be used for on the platform are to moderate spam."

And Ned went on to say,

"Because what we realize is there's a really strong humaneness to the platform and down voting is a sort of action that represents you know a real heavy hand you know in the real world."

It's at 41:00 on this video:

So my question is are you human enough to see what Ned himself said in this interview, of just how heavy handed your down vote was on my comments that sent me down from 46 to 4 and willing to remove the flag and restore my rep, @adm, especially given I apologized here publicly?

Earlier in the interview I learned that a downvoted low reputation DOES in fact effect my ability to regain my reputation on steemit. The last post I did after this one proved that out that I now have to get 5 times the upvotes to gain the same upward gains in reputation as before.