I decided not to make a video about this as some have mentioned my youtube journey started with a lot of dramatic/negative hive stuff that may not be great for any outsiders to watch - which I agree with. So I thought I'd make a quick post saying a few things. 

One of the only people I ended up having to downvote as they ignored my warnings of shamelessly buying votes, automating "community posts" which they accepted all the rewards on themselves, and a myriad of other things that defeat the purpose of curation and community-building, they decided to undelegate all the various vote-selling/trading/self-voting services and start retaliating on my projects. 

Normally if people deem my projects to be overrewarded and their downvotes seem to be genuine, I accept their opinion and action and try not to be negative about their decision to lower the rewards, but when some do it straight out of retaliation then I don't think I should accept it. Since I don't self-vote, this means I have an extra vote "free" for such scenarios where if certain posts get downvoted I will just counter the downvote. So that's what I've been doing lately, you may see my upvotes on my own account, @poshtoken, @azircon, @ocd and @ocdb lately until the abuser gets bored and stops. 

Something to keep in mind here is that due to my upvotes often being cast late, at the 2-6 day age of a post, this usually will mean I will earn close to no curation rewards on these votes - they're strictly to counter the downvote of the abuser. Many of my own posts even forfeit most of the author rewards so voting those up late is kind of just a lose-lose for me but it doesn't penalize other voters who voted them early just because someone decided to downvote them out of retaliation. 

Here's a screenshot from hivestats showing that I'm not really profiting off of self-voting in this case, it's more about the principle of things. 


![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/acidyo/23swkTXj5XD4zYyjahhnNS9hbFNzbxGC7N4AbQcjiLomJsPb2DBfZ8QgsKoR8AMiH5Maf.png)

On another note, the autovoters that clang to @redditposh's comments lately in attempt to maximize their curation, quickly stopped autovoting them recently as we started to downvote some that were getting overrewarded which meant the maximizers weren't so much maximizing any longer. It's a shame that there seems to be a lot of accounts trailing such maximizers however, even our rank #1 witness doing so... 

Oh well, it's still early days I suppose, it's on you how you decide to run things here and if you want to see the later stages of hive in a good standing with the community or have a crappy reputation and hide away to a new account. 

Thanks for reading, I'll be self-voting for a little while here forward, hope ya'll don't mind. ^^