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Would you rather prefer I modify your curation trail at will?

I personally just don't want to change your settings. It's your decision to be part of a trail and it's the curators decision to misbehave. It's not my freedom to stand in the middle of those two parties, IMHO.

Please let me know i you come up with a way that makes both parties happy! I'd be glad to implement anything that brings forward Streemian and Steem!

I would not be opposed to your company stepping in to help curb abuse against people.

What's happened here, simply put is a social engineering attack against STEEM in a sense by steve. He's now using his power and given position to cause damage against those whom made his work obsolete.

While I respect you not stepping in.. at the same time being impartial to abuse isn't a great thing either.

I'll add a flip switch for them to disable down voting.
Keep in mind that there are also curators that are specifically downvoting, like steemcleaners.

I was just thinking this today.. We need downvote curation bots as well to allow people to be "judges" so to speak on plagurised and other crap content.

To be fair I'm not sure what the best plan on upvote / downvote curation trails are man. I'll think on some solutions here.

Let them fight it out. If you sell the service, then maybe make some sort of user agreement that provides for altering settings for abuse. But you're busy enough and it's free, so let folks work it out. This will pass.