We're working on it!

Continuing the status quo is not an option, as stated in our most recent post (The Future: HF21 and beyond). We don't have an ETA for the major changes yet.

In the post, we also made clear that selling downvotes is not something we stand for or will support in any way. If those "free"-downvotes are going to be used, then only for the good of Steem and not for profit. However, there do need to be guidelines in place to prevent abuse or wrongly-placed downvotes.