Whilst I have supported encouraging downvoting since 2016, I do not believe this is a sustainable solution. This is simply giving the greediest members of Steem a free 10%-25% downvotes to abuse. It may have the net benefit long-term of pushing people to embrace the downvote, I won't be supporting this feature in its current state till there's adequate mitigation against rampant vindictive downvoting by abusive whales. One whale with 25% downvotes could effectively kill off thousands of genuine content creators.
It's a matter of how many vindictive whales are there and how many guardian whales are there. That 25% is negligible in terms of a vindictive whale that is already targeting 4 times that 25% of people with their power.
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