I tried to make it clear that I'm not calling for any one fix, just some change on what exists now, based on what I'm observing right now. I'm definitely not calling for heavy moderation or top-down governance. I'm simply suggesting that it might be a good idea to let flagging be actual flagging and to adopt an anonymous downvote button for the purposes of decentralized distributed moderation, or to at least make it clear that the flagging button is to officially be adopted as a downvote button.
Let's not make the slippery slope argument that one small change will lead to much larger changes.
RE: A question for the Steemit community about the mechanism of downvoting and the dangers of charlatans