I appreciate that input. There is rich irony in that what the fork has actually elicited from me is the exact opposite. I am undelegating everything I had out to try to get my upvote to .02 and putting everything on autovote behind whales, as upvoting the stuff that actually interests me offers very little benefit to the poster and even less to me.
I will be very curious to see of the downvotes really stem abuse. I do not see how that will work, but I am glad something was attempted, at least.