Instead of using the steempower for downvotes, wouldn't it be better to just go to the new tab and upvote anything that is reasonably good? It should have the same effect as downvoting in that you are shifting the distribution.
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It doesn't have quite the same effect. There is a lot of content that is neutral but not necessarily harmful. But when someone is posting thousands of comments per day and voting each with dozens or hundreds of accounts in order to try to earn $0.02 each, that is causing a lot of long term damage (all of those comments and votes end up being stored on blockchain forever).
@indigoocean also made a good point about there not always being agreement on what is worth upvoting, and people who don't agree with the upvote policies might then decide not to support the initiative at all. There should be very little disagreement on downvoting aggressive spam and other clear forms of abuse.
I think the issue may be that it is easier to objectively agree about what is bad than about what is good. With a collective effort like this, you don't want personal biases controlling this much SP. But I share your desire to see more curation of the good by high SP folks than all the focus on punishing the bad. It may just be that the latter is causing an existential crisis for the platform right now, so has to be prioritized in the short-term.
Good view point.