Now I haven't been long on reddit, a little over a year. Some of your points I would like to address.

Subs cannot "remove" the downvote function, only make the arrows invisible via CSS. Disabling stylesheets in the preferences will bring them back to any user.

And the other thing is that it doesn't help much to retreat from the default subs into more specialized ones. /r/conspiracy and /r/911truth for example, even fringe like /r/flatearth and /r/geocentrism are closely monitored and frequently vote brigaded by dedicated subs like /r/SRS, /r/TMOR and other thought police.

Now the same thing is happening here. Have you ever noticed that @dots is posting a new dot in #dots every day? I have seen it once or twice in created, that was it. Now people are flagging @dots and inciting downvote brigades, because "it may be funny, but it doesn't add value". And I found that terribly disturbing.

The Vote Wars will be inevitable.

The problem will solve itself as soon as future interfaces allow a short analysis on the voting character of other users; it might be even more damning than the "rep". Already, RES allows you to "tag" users you interact with... wait for the Steemit Enhancement Systems that will come! And imagine they are crowd-sourced and decentralized in a sidechain...