Thanks! I was totally offended at first, turned off of steem. I must admit it. How could someone have my content removed just because they don't like it?!?!....i get it now. . . . .This post put it in much better perspective for me: https://steemit.com/steemit/@innuendo/how-to-fix-the-downvoting-issue

The downvote system doesn't work quite as intended. As noted in the post above, downvoting to reduce payment on content and downvoting to remove illegal/hateful/scam content is entirely different and should work differently.

I'm thinking though hopefully as the system grows, people of influence won't be so exponentially more powerful than everyone else. So that its not so significant when you are downvoted by someone who just doesn't like your content.