A downvote without any reason or motivation explained in a comment on the downvoted post , is childish behavior . It shows weakness , no matter what wealth you carry .
Be honest to yourself and others , show a spine , and put words to your action's .
Should Hive make it mandatory to always comment when placing a downvote ?
Maybe even make it impossible to downvote with delegated HP , or give the option to delegators to only delegate for upvotes ? I mean children need childish rules to make them grow up sometimes . ;-)
Or if the adult whales in the room take note - and tell them to straighten themselves out, or they'll be going to bed without any supper for a year
(the threat of serious down voting from whales would be a big deterrent to the sycophantic spineless).
It's not in their interests to have bad publicity, due to total idiocy.
(I'm 'intimate friends' shall we say - with some big journo's in the national rags/broadsheets, for example...)
Wealthy people build walls to protect what they have , with the risk of blocking there vision on the horizon . And it seems that wealth has the ability to dissolve the spine . To become a big rock , and not to roll , so they probably have no interest in parenting wealthy childish behavior . Even if it gives bad publicity to the whole . It might cost them some . ;-)
I like your idea. Instead of a flag button or slider meter what if steemfiles had a "Flag as" button and the user could choose one of several options that purportedly what flagging was for...
You cannot change the rules of the blockchain unless you're one of the "children" so good luck with that. That is unless perhaps its to do with another token like say POB instead of Hive.