After today's contest became unrated, I noticed that the contest announcement received a number of downvotes.

Monogon, the creator of the announcement blog and writer of today's problems, did nothing wrong at all. The reason the contest became unrated was because of technical issues within Codeforces.

However, by downvoting the contest announcement, one negatively affects Monogon's contribution and feelings.

I believe that not only should the announcement not be downvoted, but it should be upvoted because the author worked hard to create a good problemset! Even though the contest became unrated, (in my opinion) the problems are still high-quality.