Just saying it was good in the beggining and now it is good bad ugly as you said in your post.
Lets keep it good for better of steem value and find all solutions together.

Creating one downvote lobby on one side will provoke another lobby and it will make people to downpower and flood market with free floating steem .this will bring steem value down.
I hope this negative spiral downvote trand will get under control i am urging steem owners to step in soon.