Hi ura-soul. Thanks for writing back. I have no relationship with any of the three accounts you speak of, except that I have upvoted some of Lyndsay's content, I believe, and she may have done the same on my blog.

I would like to offer the following, just as food for thought:

1. One account should be limited to a certain number of downvotes against another in a given time period. TBD by the witnesses...Perhaps a maximum of five votes in a day...against any/and all of another's accounts posts, comments, etc. A person with an array of accounts like berniesanders has at his disposable might have to be dealt with differently...i.e. the "victim" may also need a daily SP or rep-score damage limit, that then kicks in, preventing further downvotes. Sort of how the stock market has downside circuit breakers.... Maybe this "circuit breaker" could be "massaged" based on the size of the victim's SP pool, so that a little pain for huge accounts that err could still have some effect, whereas less pain could be applied to smaller accounts. i.e. it hurts someone like bernie, not at all to lose a week's earnings, whereas to a minnow like me, it's a pretty stiff penalty. Alternatively to all this, maybe there should have to be some communication between assailant and victim beyond the first downvote for further downvotes to be triggered. i.e. if one person is showing no aggression (as I have done) they may not be subject to massive malicious unlimited downvoting forays (or perhaps even to a second downvote.)

2. I would like to see rep score worked into the equation, eventually, perhaps totally at the expense of SP, so that people can not simply "buy" the ability to be vindictive, as is the case now. But this would require eliminating bot-built rep scores somehow first, and so this is just a long-term idea.

3. I would like to see automated downvoting dealt with. No one should be able to downvote something they haven't even read.

4. I am not sure that "graying" out content is the right message for the steemit platform to be sending either. It's seems almost a blatant commendation/condoning of someone's "right" to silence another.

5. I think that there should be a requirement that the reason for the downvote be "clicked" by the downvoter, and that there be a method of appeal...Perhaps the site could have an arbitration process. However, if we establish the limits suggested above, this might not be necessary.

Just some ideas to kick around.

Again, thanks for your thoughtfulness and kindness in considering my current plight. I assure you I didn't get to a near 65-rep score myself by being rude, confrontational, inaccurate, etc.