I believe that the culture would change if the Downvote were not an option. We know that the Downvote is hardly ever used to determine the value of a post. It is purely retaliatory or abusive. I know we all love to hate Facebook, but they were very smart in understanding that the negative vote would be anti-social. And I believe it was a smart move even though many people insisted that they wanted the Thumbs Down button.

YouTube, on the other hand, decided to give it a go, but how many people can honestly say that they ever decided to not watch a video because they saw too many downvotes? I certainly never have.

I think the best culture is the culture of; if you don't like an Author, don't follow them. Proof-of-Brain is a failed concept. What was written about in the White Paper never happened. We have not produced Authors superior to any other site. So why not just focus on being a Proof-of-Social platform, where we incentivize socializing, and forming communities.

We should have a blocking feature that would mute accounts in both directions, so that if I am being abused by someone, I Block them in such a way that I do not see any of their posts or comments, and they do not see any of my posts or comments. Upvoting those who are being Downvoted abusively wastes time and resources.

What if you could Block those who are Downvoting you, or being rude, and they could longer see your posts or comments, wouldn't that be a great relief? Be honest, you'd be smashing that BLOCK button a lot lately!