Tim you do a lot of good work here which is why I feel safe saying this pull request is doing more harm than good.

Downvoting bots on authors with 65+ reputations ruin the spirit of what you are trying to do with this pull request. For example, I have a bot that follows me around and downvotes most every comment I make by the account name of @veryscamfield. See the downvotes at https://steemd.com/@veryscamfield. This is an account created by @berniesanders and @nextgencrypto that automatically downvotes most of my comments.

Fortunately the reputation protection blocks this downvoting bot from hiding any of my comments with its dust vote. Without this protection, one user could make a bot to automatically downvote any and all of our 65+ reputation authors and automatically hide comments on a huge scale. There is no reason any of us should be expected to setup a bot to then autovote our comments back up to counter what already is prevented.

Your pull request means at no reputation level are we free from a dust voting bot hiding our comments and that it should then be our responsibility to auto upvote our own comments or to do it manually to counter this.

Would you please remove this pull request because it is opening a bigger opportunity for exploitation than the one it hopes to close?