Dear @therealwolf
But even without focusing on SMTs - imagine we, as a community, would decide that downvotes should be more powerful in order to better combat abuse. Who would develop that? Hint: WPS
I respect your work here but this idea terrifies me.
It seem that in the future it will be very easy for any media to enter Steemit, power up and pretty much "destroy" independent media. By downvoting them even more efficiently than it can be done already today.
Let's face it: regular users do not use downvote on their daily basis. Even if common people will downvote anyone then it doesnt really make any difference.
Downvote is a very powerful tool, which will allow very those with resources to control everything on this platform even more. How not to see it as a centralization of power and influence? Downvoting content of unwanted independent bloggers/influencers by those in power = censorship.
That is obviously disadvantage. Would you mind sharing with us what are advantages of giving downvotes (tool of rich people) more power?
Hope you can see this problem from my point of view as I'm sharing some of concerns of regular people, with very little SP. People who in theory should be a core of this platform.
Yours
Piotr