The gods can see the number of plus and minus votes a node has received. This feature helps us to identify rare cases of voting abuse.

Since the original poster complained about receiving downvotes, I checked the numbers. At that point, the node had several times the number of upvotes as downvotes. In my mind, there was no evidence of abuse.

I have no idea what you mean by the phrase "climate of grace", but if you're concerned about what any one god can and cannot do, any other god can and will look into the matter.