by allowing self centered people to dominate and exploit everyone else
You'd sell votes to plagiarists and scammers, effectively pushing solid organic actual content down and out of sight so junk could rank high on something like a trending page. Someone buying votes to push others aside in essence is the exact same thing as downvoting since the end result is nearly the same. And at that time, the vote selling pushed thousands of good folks away. Can you explain your role in all that without sounding like a self centered human out to dominate and exploit others? No. Can you explain those ancient delegations I see in your wallet? I know how that all came to be. You're more than happy to take advantage of inactive account delegations, from folks that might not even be aware Hive exists, to help pad your wallet. Can you explain that without sounding like a self centered human out to dominate and exploit others? No.
And now you want others to sell their property because something is inconveniencing, you? Can you explain that without sounding like a self centered human out to dominate and exploit others? No.
Ironically, your behavior (not only you) from the past and the mess that made created the need to have the downvotes in their current form, today.
I downvoted this post because you insist it'll be worth zilch so therefore it shouldn't be a problem. That's what you wanted.