most don't want to engage in flag wars, which is toxic in its inception.

remove the ability of abuse, but don't expect common users to benefit from this system of downvoting.

i want to know how this will help from retaliation downvotes.

i disagreed with berniesanders and lost money on multiple posts unrelated to the conversation. here are the two posts, and if you look at my blog you'd notice they even downvoted some guy i resteemed.

https://steemit.com/flatearth/@klevn/ball-earthers-change-perspective-to-make-theory-work

https://steemit.com/steemit/@klevn/i-make-up-my-mind-all-the-time-sometimes-i-change-it

https://steemit.com/flatearth/@flatearth/apollo-wires-and-other-blatant-nasa-fakery

i don't see how this will help that. I literally got 100+ downvotes on an unrelated posts from berniebots.

so in my opinion, we need a jury voted in, a jury of invested steemians with a decent sized following, that a sizable majority agree is fair, made up of normal steemians.

if enough people vote to complain about someone, it is brought to the jury.

this downvoting thing as a way to counteract bad actors only works on a small scale, it fails in the face of bad whales.