I'm spending most of what I earn here on my own project, I assumed 3spk gets decent rewards even at these prices being a top witness and all.

This overly defensive nature comes off weird, I'm sure you can understand that. Me mentioning a project in a one off comment partially is not going to damage your project's reputation. I admitted I was wrong about it not working or being underused and the comment I replied to was barely on topic to the post so I didn't vote it much either if you're concerned about visibility.

Either way, there's more influencers we can bring on chain and I know you and others have managed to do so and some are still here posting, even though they keep it a secret because of what bitcoin maxis would say or because of our low standing marketcap. The only examples of downvotes chasing away legitimate influencers I can think of is finallycrypto and Davidpakman, which I tried to counter for a while and received downvotes in exchange, etc.

It'd be better to focus our attention as to how we can prevent such issues in the future or re-evaluate how downvote mana works instead of whatever this was.