Loving these ideas! Having a Hive account@nointforyou account for downvoting purposes could serve well to protect our team members' personal accounts, whilst still enabling individual members to go about cleaning up of the tag where necessary.
Additionally,

Also, if you're not limiting, then effectively you are competing with palnet and neoxian.

Excellent point made here, I had not considered it from that pov before (because I am admittedly not SUPER active/familiar with all the big tribes on STEEM), but this is definitely something we will need to make note of and keep in mind going forward.

Thank you so much for your feedback Hive account@elbrava! Cheers! :D