I've mentioned it before in a few posts, the way downvoting works now is in my opinion flawed.

• A downvote should not be possible without a clear explanation of the why for this downvote.
• There should always be a possibility to appeal a downvote. While the downvoter may have his or hers (according to them legal) reasons, that may not be the case.
  A fine case in point is that some downvoters, e.g. steemcleaners, will downvote a post because as they say it may be considered spam.
  Problem is that nowhere in the whitepaper, faq or TOS it is defined what is considered to be spam.

One point people tend to forget is that they potentially open themselves up to legal action when using the downvote functionality.
When I buy an account to market my website, product or service on Steemit, and someone downvotes me, they are actually stealing and censoring me.
Some countries, like Sweden, have very strict rules regarding censorship, which can very well be broken by someone downvoting a post.

In my opinion no-one should have absolute power like @ned and @dan. If they don't agree they can downvote with a power of 1 and if other people agree, they will support them.

If others don't agree the post is apparently not a real problem.