Thanks for your comment!
Interesting to see your reasoning regarding downvotes and the critique about vote trading and SBI.
I understand these arguments. I thought SBI was a great thing because of the fact that you enroll/sponsor fellow steemians. A nice way to show appreciation for the content and comments of others with longer lasting effects for them than just an upvote.
But I'm for a change in their upvote policy based on quality of content! That would be a really nice move and the critique part of being quality agnostic in their votes would go away.
Cheers!
Lucky