The first thing you all at the top need to do is get ride of the free down votes. Down voting should cost at twice as much (or more) to down vote someone than the down vote takes away.
My thoughts exactly, been saying this since I returned to Steem in October and discovered there was such thing as a downvote. On my very first post back, after being away for over a year, some asshat downvoted me with no reason stated.
I would go a step further than just paying for the downvote. Require the downvoter comment as to why it is being downvoted.