It good that we are thinking about this.

i think overall downvotes are bad. They tend to create a lot more damage then good and create really bad user experience.

We have lost many great content producers because of downvotes.

I urge you to keep this in mind.

Even if I just get 20% if my voting power as free downvotes, i can now run around and take money away from people and would have to do this, in order to maximize my rewards. This will lead to people downvoting each other and will create a culture of downvote wars, that can be nasty.

Please keep this in mind.