Right now Justin owns and controls Steemit. He also owns and controls the account @steem which is used to delegate to new accounts. Several people have been sending request to have the down vote army bots delegations removed, both prior to Justin owning the Account and since he bought the account. He has yet to remove the delegations from those 25 REP, 15 delegated SP accounts that do nothing at all other than down vote. I think it is should be obvious that Justin does not care any more than Ned cared about the down votes. Only Steemit can remove the delegations from those accounts, yet they have not, under either leader chose to do so.
I do not agree with a lot of the meaningless down votes, I have voiced my opinion on it several times I hope to see when the down vote button is pushed and the pop-up opens to one day see a mandatory check box as to why the down vote, and a comment in the post so that the community can decide if the down vote was justified.
Please keep asking for a fix to the down votes. All negative actions should have consequences.