Thank you for your response and for taking the time to think about solutions! I think your idea is a really positive way of looking at it and might help to curb the random down-voting, while also still keeping spammers off the site (many of my solutions might make spam easier).
Is there an official process for submitting ideas to the Steemit team?
If you're a programming type (which you seem to be from your other posts) i think your best bet might be on github. Im not entirely sure how that works though.