That's the thing though; Not everyone comes here to do PoS, some do, and it can look nasty on trending. This is why trending needs to get fixed. However, if we don't respect the upvote autonomy of self voters, and or bid bot users, then we'll lose stakeholders. As people sell, it will drive the value of the token down. You know what I think, we should add a voting system (Reddit style,) that only works to sort content. It doesn't allocate value, it just sorts. One sort vote per IP address and all votes are equal. A system like this would encourage me to go to trending every day, just to down sort undesirable content, and to be able to do so with a clean conscience knowing that I'm not disregarding the merit of someone's stake or for that matter, stealing from a bid bot user. Change downvote back to flag and call the upvote button a Tip Jar. Maybe I just need to learn to code, it could be so easy to make Steem good. The fact it hasn't gotten there yet is a colossal failure of imagination.
RE: Why free downvotes are a good and necessary part of STEEM