Why can we now see our downvotes?

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One of the lastest updates in the site is the possibility to see our activity through the tag “my: ‘x’ criteria”, like my:upvotes, my:faves, etc.
 
It called my attention that now we have the possibility to see the content that we have downvoted, but I remember that function was previously suggested but denied because of the argument: “why would you like to see again the pictures that you don’t like?”, and if I recall correctly, some people could use it with bad purposes like to go and comment mean things towards those images (I repeat, if I remember correctly).
 
I think it’s an interesting function (and it helped me to remove downvotes that now I think that there are images that doesn’t deserve it because previously I didn’t used correctly my filters), but my question is:
 
Why or what made the developers decide to implement it now?
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As far as I can see, there’s not really any real evidence-based reason not to allow it, just mild worries (from myself included) that people might use it for nefarious reasons. But I don’t think people will use it for that, honestly.
 
It was a one-line change to add my:downvotes. If it ends up being a problem, we’ll take it away.
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It allows you to omit those images from search results. That seems like a useful thing.
 
If people use it to break rules more efficiently, then hopefully other users will report them and those behaviors will be dealt with.
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@Ciaran
 
That’s true, that seems like an useful tool (though at least I haven’t been in the situation of finding images that I have downvoted while searching something).
 
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Well, let’s hope that none of the users of the site have questionable uses towards this new option for regular users, I wouldn’t like the option to be removed just because some people use it in the wrong way.
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Finally.
 
I see lots of images I have no idea why I downvoted them. I can also see images I downvoted before I learned to filter them. I guess I have to un-downvote some images. But there are lots of images that really do deserve every downvote they have.
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…I just realized I’ve never actually downvoted anything.
 
Cool stuff all around too! I like to use faves to “mark” images that inspire me in some way so this makes it super easy to search for more specific stuff. Thanks for this :D
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It’s nice that we are finally be able to search for downvoted images to see if there are any pics that we’ve accidentally clicked on or didn’t really deserve downvotes.  
But there’s one thing that keeps bugging me about the downvotes feature is that many users have been using it incorrectly, downvotes are meant for images with low quality/troll/spam, etc. Not for the ones that they didn’t like just because of the fetish, character or opinion on the image. Many pics I’ve seen has got an undeservingly low score just because it had a ‘strange’ fetish even though the pic didn’t violate any rules :(
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