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.