You'd get away with it... for a while. Then the community would down vote everything you do to oblivion, which would be the social media version of running you out of town.
I'm not sure there is a perfect solution to policing imperfect actors, but I think this is a big step in the right direction and would substantially reduce or perhaps altogether stop malicious down votes.
Yeah that could work. We'd likely end up with factions, but I'm not sure that is avoidable.
Yes, if there's more than two humans involved there will be always be sides/groups/factions. Steem Power, and the influence it begets, is a resource and it's inevitable that there is going to be competition to control as much of it as possible. Down voting is a powerful weapon in that war. All this does is take the keys to the nukes away from one lone actor and force another to be involved in the decision to nuke someone.
We could require 3, 5, 10 upvotes to ratify, or have the weight of the down vote correlated to the number of upvotes.
I think I was down voted by a whale because I comented on someones post of their son. I think I put "kids are a blessing". Lol Idk why someone would downvote me for that but ok. Lol. People can be kinda crazy. It seems to have affected me pretty negatively because I'm very new...growing pains I guess.
This is a good article! thank you for the info. I do have a question though. There is a guy downvoting my friend because he is Jewish-- he posts happy Hanukkah and gets penalized. I of course retaliated and downvoted all of his stuff but in reality it's hard to prove he is what he is. What do you think the best course of action is in this instance?