The frontend and content discovery is a joke for now. This is a social media platform at the end, is not the frontend the most important side of it??

Couldn't agree more with that!

Stop the voting/downvoting bots completely and force manual curation in this platform.

How? With a digital layer it seems like a futile exercise to even consider the possibility.

You will let the blockchain become a place where people do not want to post for the fear of being downvoted.

Actually I get about 5-10 people a day telling "me flag this flag that", When I ask them to at least flag it themselves they respong they're too scared of reprisals, and don't really consider relying on a whale or some "justice system" to defend them.

I'd like to see more projects like Hive account@freezepeach (dead) https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@freezepeach/freezepeach-the-flag-abuse-neutralizer that make people feel safer that there is logic in the policing being done and that they will be defended with the same logic if someone decide to go rogue on them.

Every flags should be accompanied with a reason if it is not disagreement on reward. And bringing a post below 0 is definitely not a disagreement on reward.

So maybe a downvote button instead of a flag and a strong warning before downvoting anything below 0 could help.