The "viral" algorithm that reinforces early momentum and early downvotes is skewed with large stakes being centrally directed. This is true for Hive blatantly, and is true for other platforms via bot farms or campaigns. What is needed is to let the stakeholders curate value and let the users tweak their feeds with how much they care to have stakeholders' input.

This would not be such a difficult feature to implement from what I see. There may be resistence, though, because rectifying this unbalance would cause a big shift in curation from users whose feeds would include posts that are currently suppressed.

Such a feature, though, would restore Hive's promise as a haven for free thinkers. I think @blocktrades had scoped out something similar a while ago with a short post series. I never saw it implemented.