Well maybe you should look around a little more then?
I do see it because I spend a lot of time on here and in the chat and I have come across very few people espousing your opinion except for the odd whale.
If a poll is done and shows otherwise then fair enough - I will admit to being wrong but until then I will choose to believe my own subjective experience over your subjective opinion.
Also it is no longer called downvoting it is called flagging now and it was changed for a reason i.e. to make it clear that it is not a downvote used to show your displeasure in a post.
If you have a problem with that take it up with @dantheman and the rest of the team. Despite what you say about voting having no rules it most definitely does and they are the ones that set them.
Encouraging flagging for posts that people think have earned "too much" just makes it too easy for envy to come into the situation. Do I need to repeat the crab story from the whitepaper?
its still called downvoting on the blockchain, which is what ill continue to call it. Changing the interface in an attempt to change peoples voting behavior (which is what was done) is dishonest. Its like fixing the ballot so people don't vote for someone you don't like.
Just the number of downvotes on some of the worst posts (which are also some of the highest paid) shows that the consensus you imagine is just that, a consensus you imagine. Let me guess, all these people downvoting don't count, because they're envious jealous crabs who are just looking to destroy the system.
You seem to think its envy and the crab in the bucket. I disagree. I think its a lot of people who don't want to see insipid ,low quality material get paid tens of thousands of dollars while 99 % of posts get nothing or near nothing. I can't say as I see that as an unreasonable position. An ad-hominem attack against the people taking it doesn't change that. I may have crabs, but i am not a crab. Just someone who doesnt want to see steem worth 75 cents by labor day.
I often vote via the CLI or API in which case I'm specifying my vote using a number between -100 and 100. There is no label or name attached to any of these values; the only meaning is the effect it has on the mathematical formulas that make up the protocol.
In other words, I agree with @sigmajin