I strongly agree! Especially in tiny foreign language speaking communities, this can be devastating. To quote myself:
"The german speaking steem community so far is so tiny that yesterday a whale megadownvote of one of its members by an english speaking whale had eradicated quite a proportion of it and caused a certain stirr, with other german speaking steemers posting the letter of the downvoted guy in solidarity and protests of censorship on Steemit risking to go viral in Germany before Steemit had even got viral itself!"
https://steemit.com/steemit/@fabio/speaking-of-ants-the-germants-are-endangered-here