great post, we have to continue the discussion on this topic. I think that Dan's idea to counter downvotes from "bad actors" could be a logical next step to try and see how this affects the whole dynamic.

I know this is a discussion about the reward pool, but on the other side there is a really cool new idea from @liketu to integrate web2 into web3 by introducting likes something which I pondered about some years ago as well.

While this wouldn't impact the rewards pool directly, it will bring users into the spotlight and thereby making it possible to discover people that could be voted on with users that have a larger stake. This would mitigate the "censorship" aspect and on top of that we would still have the web3 aspect of immutability. I am actually really excited how that will be adopted.

@tipu curate