If platforms (including Steemit) in unpalatable due to (dick moves by those in power or outright censorship) why aren't moves being made by those affected to create their own platforms where they can decide the rules.
I have neither the time or the money or the expertise to "start my own blockchain".
I believe an elegant solution would be perhaps for someone to clone steemit and reverse the rankings (this would be the ONLY modification). It could be steem.freespeech or upside-down.steem or some other generally self-explanatory title (
That way, the most downvoted posts would show at the top of the trending page.
And everything with a payout or pending payout above 20 steem would be automatically hidden (with a reveal button for the curious).
It might look a mess, but I'd definitely check it out.
To delegate, right-click and open this link in a "new incognito window" (so forms and cookies don't get cached) https://steemworld.org/@practicalthought - then click "delegation" on the left, then delegate or undelegate or modify existing delegations as you see fit at any time. It doesn't require your master password, just your "active key", so any "risk" is extremely low. I believe delegating is much better than upvoting because you don't have to do it every day (it's like a semi-permanent upvote to the account instead of to a single post) and you never lose the steem-power, you can take it back whenever you want.
So it's kinda like a "super-pat.reon" because you don't have to give anybody your credit card info and you can take the money back if you find a better priority and nobody can stop you (pat.reon could potentially ban certain users in the future).
RE: Downvote early, downvote often