Just because you happen to have money and can buy steem willy nilly should not give you the right to destroy another's intellectual property without cause, argument, rebuttal, comment...or....anything.

Which HF gave people the ability to delete stuff from the blockchain? This is news to me.

BUT WHO ONLY DOWNVOTE PEOPLE for no stated reason, have got to be hardforked into civil behavior, somehow.

Oh, mad because the consensus mechanism sometimes doesn't turn in your favor. Since when is downvoting for no reason "bad" behavior? Isn't one of the rules of the game? It's not like they are destroying your property, they are assisting the blockchain in finding "fair" value for your content.

who NEVER POST anything of their own--so that someone might choose to treat them to some of their own medicine

It's an interesting strategy, but think about it, they aren't making author rewards so what this this threat mean to them? Even if they were forced to post and downvoted, they wouldn't really lose anything... Reputation is basically meaningless and they probably care less about their content's visibility since they don't make content, they downvote.