Why aren't you building a curation account instead? Why witness votes?
Either way as I said I didn't read the post, just my thoughts on this new movement.
I'm pretty sure most people know I'm not a "downvote dominator king" by now, if downvote receivers weren't behaving like a bunch of dickheads I'd most likely counter downvotes I feel are too big and happening over a longer period of time, as I have been before and am doing now. But hey, it helps your narrative and using my vulgarity against me, so go ahead and best of luck. I'll be busy bringing some actual value to Hive which will hopefully generate content people actually read and may take the time to dispute if it's complete lunacy.
I've created accounts for over 500 people this week and still taken a lot of time from that to deal with entitled dickheads discussing downvotes. What you call a problem is you want people to get rewarded without repercussions from other people's stake no matter the content, effort or value you bring to Hive and that no one should be able to have a say against it because that equal's "censorship".
What you also call a problem really isn't, I spent 2 votes this week countering overdownvotes and it didn't cost me much. I was happy to do it and the person wasn't a complaining piece of shit yelling at the top of his lungs that he was being "censored", nor did he instantly turn his back on Hive and say he's going to purposely shit on it and tell everyone they shouldn't join Hive because him and a few others weren't getting what they wanted.
You really don't need to try to make it any more complicated than that, if you aren't a dickhead posting content people don't find value in or think it shouldn't be valued that much, you're most likely going to have others step in and help you against big downvotes.
As was pointed out by Dan at 3speak in our recent community chat, it isn't really possible for the community to rally to counter downvotes as long as the downvotes aren't easily visible. That is part of why I am going to make that possible soon and he has stated he has funds set aside just to counter the downvotes.
As far as people shitting on Hive goes - I only know of a small number and they aren't really on Hive any more.
Well I read it with my own eyes, probably someone you're defending while grouping me in with people who overdownvote in your post.
It doesn't sound like rocketscience to build a tool that notifies people when big downvotes occur late while filtering out hivewatchers or anti-abuse accounts like that so many can go and decide for themselves if they want to collectively counter said downvote and share the loss of ROI from that vote with each other until it's back to a realistic/fair reward.