Until there is skin in the game, those that go beyond down voting plagiarism and posts that fail to meet terms of service will continue to abuse their privilege. There should be a penalty to down vote something that doesn't warrant a down vote.
There's a large responsibility to having an account large enough to make significant damage to likely as many as half of the users at one time. Many of the mechanisms that led to down vote abuse have been curbed to a healthy level. Putting an onis on services that claim to be and are intended to prevent abuse that become abusive themselves would have an effect on abusive down voting.
Thanks for dropping by and for your comment @thedrollyears
ps. I noticed that your latest post is veryyyy old. Did you give up on Steemit completely?
Not at all. I'm impressed with the positive evolution Steemit has shown. I think once SMT are in effect it may even be time for a second to around of me inviting all of the people that never joined Steemit when I first discovered it and saw its enormous potential. I don't have the time to put a lot of effort towards posting. The posts that I made were fun art collaborations and the full intention of doing them was to earn steem to share with @gardenofeden. When they stopped earning steem it seemed too much time was being put into the creations.
I'm glad to see that you're so responsive @thedrollyears :)
It's me again @thedrollyears
I just realized that I never actually thanked you for your comment. Big thx.
ps.
I would need to ask you for little favour. Recently I've decided to join small contest called "Community of the week" and I desribed our project.hope hive/community. Would you mind helping me out and RESTEEM this post - just to get some extra exposure? Your valuable comment would be also appreciated.
Link to my post: on steemit or on steempeak
Thanks :)
Yours, Piotr