RE: On Downvotes, Stake and Power

If DV had a cost i would downvote and nor would anyone because you have more interest to not get a cost that to preserve the inflation

That is a you problem. If someone cared strongly about something like illegal content and abuse they can easily spare some of their voting power. If they cared strongly cared about overrewarded content they could spare their power. And whales that do use downvotes have spades of power to spare. Most of their downvoting activity would not cost them more than 2% of their voting power.