I have an idea for another proposal:
That is that instead of taking out downvoting completely - make all downvotes worth over say 10 HBD subject to community consideration placing value on accounts with a great level of community activity and content on equal par with accounts that have a great deal of stake value.
Either this or introduce an appeals process where the community can vote on whether or not a large downvote is legitimate to the purpose of reducing spam, plagiarism or disproportionate circle jerking.
This would be to protect truly authentic quality content creators from being downvoted simply because a whale does not agree with their content or does not like them as a person.
All the best with this proposal!
I am so glad people like you and others are intrigued and thinking about positive changes! yes that does sound pretty cool! I need to explore the hardforks to see what else we maybe missing and if adjustments are possible that way with DV power. Great idea! Maybe even make recharge rate 2x longer. As it is this is just a shot in the dark that seems reasonable enough to spur community action towards a healthy middle ground with large stakers and witnesses. But really I love the pro active and health discussions!
Hey no worries, glad to be a 'people like me'. haha
If the witnesses see no need for some kind of resolution to the whole downvote scandal then there is really no hope in trying to push a resolution.
Have any of the top witnesses come on board or are sympathetic to this change or similar?