This issue of upvote and downvote have been lingering like for ever, it was this issue that caused the 1st rift on steem back in the days when bid bots where rampant and those with huge powers sell thier votes too the highest bidder, back then there was no auto downvote just upvote and the watch Dogs where finding it difficult too clean spam post unlike now. The major issue why one rant about being downvoted is when the downvoter doesn't give the author the reason for his downvote, and then again the value system of hive is some how trashed that's is why it hardly retains new users, 95% of people signing up on hive are here for the money, the work and the reward are not encouraging especially after creating the first contents without getting anything as reward.
For me i think a new mechanism should be put in place for new accounts not to be downvoted for at least the 1st 3 months after sign up too allow them familiarize with the hive world and Also gets too know the rules.
Yea i get hive is not for everyone but some of the people who would have loved it here where chased with downvotes.
The downvotes is the major reason why the price of hive is still where it's at no sane investor who is expecting huge roi will invest in hive for a long time, that's why with the mouth watering technology hive hasn't gotten too top 100 in cryptocurrency ranking.
Before Hive was Hive it was in the top 100. The mighty have fallen, and you note some of the reasons why. Flags aren't all bad, but they're sure not all good either. I'm unaware of a good author on the platform that hasn't been targeted by significant stake from time to time, for reasons that only deprecate the platform. Until Hive is perfected, we'll have to take the good with the bad, is the best I can resolve.
A problem Hive faces is that it's in a world in which stake rules supreme, and Hive will not succeed without significantly enabling stake to substantially incentivize folks to use it. This is a balancing act, and the OP is almost exclusively intent on enabling curators to better balance the deployment of stake via rewards, because a great many very destructive forces are unleashed on society through extractive processes that cause stake to oppress and deprecate far more valuable matters to society.
At this point in time, I can only hang in here and hope better minds than mine continue to seek solutions to problems that continue to negatively impact Hive, not in terms of token price, but in terms of the society that imparts value to that token. Until there are means of valuing more important and valuable aspects of society better than mere stake, Hive will struggle with over-valuing stake, and all the consequences that has to society, just like IRL.
At least greedy whales can't extract my organs and profit from selling them on Hive, so there is a limit to the potential negatives that Hive can inflict on society. Sometimes even the most acquisitive stakeholder recognizes that their stake only has value in society, and acts to strengthen society instead of maximizing their ROI. Until the balance is so far out of whack Hive cannot exist, or is perfected and conquers the world, I intend to persist here, in the hope that our mutual interactions of our own free will enable freedom to increase and happiness in the world increase as a result.
Yea true alot of persons including myself is just hanging there on hive, my mind has already left the reward for my sanity even though I actually need them right now but the present economic situation is not favorable for forks in my part of the world.
I hope a moments reflection will enable you to grasp what a horrible idea this is, and how scammers with 10k accounts will rape the pants right off Hive if it ever was to happen.
Sometimes it is far better to do nothing than to make things worse.