Ah, that makes much more sense now. I hadn't considered it from that perspective. Thanks for clarifying.

I'm imagining it working just like zapping top content works. You'd only get credit for downzapping content that other high trust people have downzapped.

It's basically a way to pay for community policing, which I think is an important element of organic content curation.

Undisciplined

The issue I see with downzapping is that you might not actually be downvoting bad content, but rather content you simply don't like. However, if downzapping has a limited weight in the calculation of rewards, I think it could be a useful feature.

0xbitcoiner

Only Cowboys Get Rewards: and other ideas

I'm not sure downzapping bad content is anymore manipulable than zapping good content and I think we need to incentivize it.

You're probably right about my specific suggestion regarding referrals, but there might be something in that vein that would work.