I appreciate you responding. What would another way to counteract opinion downvoting be? I'm asking because I am a bit afraid about my future of this site, if Steemit does end up growing a lot, which I think it will.

I have a lot of issues close to my heart that I post about, and know they are hot topics on the other social media sites I'm on because they are not mainstream points of view (Freeing Palestine for one...). While on those sites, all I deal with is trolling in the comments of my posts, here I would have to worry about losing my reputation and earnings as well.

The people and organizations I speak out against are powerful, and would easily be able to buy a tonne of SP here and use it to silence my voice and others like mine. Whereas I don't have much money, and have had to earn all the SP I have.

So how else can I/We stop paid shills/agents from silencing our voices here on Steemit?