#1 Question: how would this help steemit/steem grow?
Wouldn't more downvoting cause more drama and conflict on the platform making people want to leave or not join?
The majority of downvoting I've seen are bigger accounts downvoting smaller ones. That's why I see downvoting as more of a bullying tactic than what it was actually designed for with making sure whales can't rape the reward pool.
I think you should focus more on protecting the reward pool from rapes rather handing out free downvotes or WMDs as I would call them to everyone on the platform.
I highly doubt this helps steemit or steem grow, and very likely does the opposite.
Yup, sounds like busy work for idle programmers.
If whales aren't already using 5 or 10% of their vp to combat this today than I doubt they'd give two shits about it with the free downvotes. Bidbots damage the platform probably more than anything else right now but you don't see whales or Steemit inc doing shit about them.
Well if they are proposing it now and not doing anything currently to fix it I have to wonder if they really care about fixing it.
That's exactly it.