Downvotes are great as long as the upvoters do not get penalised for supporting the downvoted content.
The reason other stakeholders do not stand up is that it costs a lot of curating money. We shall never know if stakeholders are fine with that (unless the voting system gets fixed)
Top20 witness should be working on this, rather than answering personal questions (as if content quality was related to author's HP)
Im not dead yet but sometimes I feel like it on this issue