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RE: Steemit Proposal: Hardcap any reputation reduction from a single individual to -5
"Individual" is a poorly defined concept. I have thousands of accounts and one can buy accounts with high rep, etc.
A better approach I think is capping the reputation change allowable per day. Spammers and abusers would get to bother us for a limited time period (individual posts could still be voted down and hidden) but that is a reasonable tradeoff against insta-wrecking rep.
I'd be ok with a definition change to "from a single account".
I've seen a case where a user with rep around 60, saw a bad comment in their thread from someone with rep around 25, and then went over their history and started flagging everything there. So the 25 went down to something like 1 or 2. After a few more downvotes it would be negative. And that's not even a whale.
So that made me realize you can have small-to-medium accounts (let's say 1k - 2k sp) that can be rogue or act maliciously to destroy new user rep, just because they can. A hardcap of 5 points influence (to the effect that one account can have to another) seems like a reasonable solution.