I agree with everything you say. We should minimize and maximize and there use. What I mean by this is more people need to participate in downvotes and cool there jets when someone objects to the downvotes. We need the downvote wars to stops it doesn't look good on us as a platform. And more people need to put a reason why they downvote to zero on every post not just the first so the voter knows why that person has been downvoted, especially if they have a downvote trail following them. The way we decentralize (which is what I think you mean) the downvotes is by bring awareness to the downvote services that we have that are small. I'm not sure how many we have. I know there is the Helios burn and a few individuals presenting a service for it. But if we share the tools that we have created to fight spam and plagiarism I think more services will pop up. We need everyone to have the ability to identified spam and plagiarism. The tools should be available to everyone to use if they so choose. If we bring awareness to who is doing the downvoting and how they determined it should be downvoted, it might lead a more unifided front in downvoting and less downvote wars. Maybe even have a consensus on how much a low quality post is allowed to make instead of voting it to zero.