Well, I didn't understand some parts in this post(maybe because my brain is half focused in the reading and half focused in some problems of programming, well...)...
But I liked this part:
If we manage to separate Proof Of Brain from HIVE (pipedream, I know), I'm going to make it my mission to get Oliver Tree on POB.
I think that this idea has a huge potential, and I would like to know more. How can I do that?
About the point of the post, I think that downvote is something fucking annoying, but when we poke the bear or bears, we have to be prepared to receive bites and such. It's nice? No. Is something wanted? No, I think, but for every action, there is a reaction. It means that if you receive a downvote is it because you poked the bear? No, I'm not saying that. Does it mean that we have to let bears wandering around without being poked? No, by all means, FUCK NO!! Does it mean that we have to kill all the bears? I don't know... What I think is that bears have the right to do bearish things since they don't go against humans that are far from them, and if they get too close, we have the right to poke them, and we have to be prepared against the bites and such, maybe having a nice big stick whit a nice and sharp steel point in hands? I don't know...