I would also like to reiterate after reading @tarazkp's comments that, I initially mentioned that if the issue is viewership (i.e. downvoting causes people to be muted and/or make it harder to reach trending/hot) a potential solution is building a frontend that ignores all downvotes. This way, no downvote would affect a post and therefore, viewership issues would be resolved.

If the problem, however, is rewards... Hive rewards are never promised. Just as how someone may support a post on Hive, other people may dislike it. Henceforth the notion of upvoting and downvoting. If either side disagrees with the other, the solution is again, very simple. Buy Hive, stake it. Get more Hive Power, counter it. Some people call this "talking with your stake" and I find that quite intriguing.

This is for Layer 1, when HAF rolls around and Layer 2 apps start to increase their paces in terms of development (not to mention additional foundation HAF is going to provide) these aforementioned solutions will no longer be necessary since, in the end, I believe that the "social posting/blogging" aspect of Layer 1 will shift to Layer 2.

These are also included in my previous comments.