Anonymous downvotes on Hive would benefit negative curation greatly, I'm not sure how that would be done, but people would use them much more liberally if we had them.
I think anonymous downvoting would be a good thing, but it would have to be implemented with your idea to counter bad downvoting.
Could this be implemented by distributing the downvote indirectly through another account? Perhaps one could delegate Hive to this account equivalent to one full downvote value; and the command to downvote a certain account would be anonymized through a dapp: it would have to be off chain (in order to function as a black box). It could then receive a command to downvote one account with the delegated Hive received from a user without being traceable as the command to downvote a certain account would be off chain. This "downvote account" could be used by all Hive users and the only thing visible on the blockchain would be a delegation to this account (but not the command to downvote an account). Could this work?
Sounds interesting, from a code PoV I couldn't tell you how to do it but it seems possible. Lots you can do off-chain. I forgot to mention in this post, downvote delegations would also help.
Downvote delegations would help.
Can we also have fractional dao and witness voting?
I'd like that a lot.