Flagging, getting the flag, being hit by the unholy abormination that is a downvote, can be a very terrible experience.

But of cause except you're a spammer, an ID-thief, or an annoying piece of cake, your likelihood of getting a downvote is quite low

(there are some crazy cookies who will downvote for just mentioning their names, but they are rare.)

This post doesn't go into what downvoting is, or how to avoid it, as I believe there are a lot great guide that talks about those specific details. If you need a guide to understanding downvotes, you could come here, a post by Hive account@cyrano.witness

There are a few things I would like to take from dwinblood post however;

• First if you are flagged (aka down voted). Don't panic.

The down vote is intended to fight plagiarism, spam, abuse, and they added for reward pool issues (wish they hadn't as that opened the flood gates).

This is currently necessary to fight spam, plagiarism, and abuse. Without these tools there is no clear way to stop such things.

dwinblood post is the source, click here

Greetings and salutations steemians!

Without a doubt, being downvoted could come off as one of the worse thing to happen to anyone trying to build a rep on steemit. It not only makes your work seem bad, but people become apprehensive to your moniker as its starts getting associated with bad news and all such things.

Who holds sway with (down)voting power?

Without a doubt, those at the top of the ladder have neigh omnipotent power to downvote any work they deem fit, and should a top steemian go on a downvoting spree, there is little that can be done to stop such person, except for say a ban via the cheetah robot, and Im not even sure thats possible.

no matter your upvotes, all it takes is a well placed downvote by a dolphin or higher to ruin your day, . . . . .dont be a d_ck!

I do understand this system is one way to prevent revenge downvoting.

To those who are new, simply put, someone higher than you in SP(steem power) and rep would do quite some damage to your post, and there is little that can be done about that.

• However, it may have cancelled out the reward other people wanted to give you for that topic because maybe they really liked it. It could be viewed as restricting the right of people to support the people that share their interests.

an extract taken from Hive account@dwinblood post here

Unsupervised downvoting

Mistakes can be made of cause, and mistakes have been made, but when your work has been downvoted, the rewards go away and don't exactly come back as quickly as you might hope.

So in this case where costly mistakes can be made what could be the solution?

The holy few. Give the power to downvote to a select few.

I dont know if this idea has berngiven before, but eitherway, I state my case. I believe the power to downvote should be given to a select few. It should be removed from the hands of everyone, and only entrusted to those worthy and human enough to use it with discretion.

Now I know giving the power to a select few could lead to high abuse of power, but people like Hive account@steemcleaners and Hive account@pfunk already sort of do this. They dedicate their time and energy on steemit to help sort out those who may try to scam, and with the help of the cheetah bot, the search field need not be scanned by humans alone.

spammers, scammers, beware

From my perspective, this could stop the cross downvoting fights or rather whale wars occurring at the top of the steemit food-chain.

Monitor the select few

With the power to downvote being in the hands of a few, they would be easy to monitor and a channel opened up to receive complaints of abuse of power. With enough complaints, proper punishment could be meted out on the abuser, which could range from suspension to outright banning of the account. No one wants to lose all their investments on steemit, so that should keep them in line.

Plus

A dvote-moderator who steps out of line would himself be downvoted by his fellow moderators

Speaking of Hive account@pfunk;

An apology to Hive account@pfunk

Im not one to shy away from any challenge, and I did stand my ground at the time, but when I was proping up this account, I set my sights on pfunk and what I though was incessant flagging and abuse of power from him. I had isolated cases and evidence against him, but it turned out these were part of a larger whole. I stood down, and decided to monitor the events leading up to the big bust on a bernie, and also exposure on a certain noga..... as a fraud (im so not mentioning the full names )

Cheetah update request

this is a pic from Hive account@lucypher open mic program, if cheetah is able to recognise this, ill edit

It seems cheetah can be exploited in several ways and Hive account@steemcleaners cant possibly be everywhere at once. The picture above is from the may edition of open mic hosted by Hive account@lucypher. I didnt credit the owner, nor did I put a reference or source because im testing a theory out.

The hypothesis before the theory- update request for detection system.

It seems Hive account@cheetah isn't able to recognise a picture once it has been edited by an app, be it photoshop, or paint, all it takes is a little editing and the photo is unique, different(at least in the mind of the machine) from all other pictures on the internet.
If an algorithm could be written or a solution found, then i believe cheetah could potentially fish out all plagarized photos from steemit. In the case of this, I simply cropped the photo. If cheetah does recognise the photo, then ill edit.