I just can’t understand why the affects you so much. I feel like you have missed the point of where hive is going. This conversation will be null and void in a year from now. Too many things being built that make downvoting for anything else but rewards disagreements useless. If anything I think your issue should be with the main blogging platforms, which unfortunately for them, cannot currently claim they are censorship resistant, at least until they have done further work on their trending algos . Your issue should not be making out like hive is a censorship tool, (which it is not). I think you need a bit of patience maybe until this system matures a bit more. It is not a censorship tool as you describe above. Some of the front ends are censorship tools. That is their issue, it is not hives fault that their trending algos are relatively unsophisticated

A quick fix would be to create a new front end from condenser or ecency and make the trending feed the downvoted content. Ppl could easily view what has been down voted and either upvote it from there or enjoy consuming them content from there directly. If this worked out, down voters who currently think they are downvoting to censor (which they are not) would have the difficult task of not being able to zero rewards in order to keep it off of trending on both the front end i talk about above as well as the major front ends on hive which unfortunately, at present, have stake based censorship in built into their trending feeds.

Some of the major front ends may do well to review this down vote list and have a way to legitimately restore the positions in the trending feeds so that the down voting of the few legit blogs only results in rewards disagreements, but not loss of position on trending prior to the down vote