I would have not gotten into this discussion, if I didn't believe what I am doing is right.

Nobody lives believing they are in the wrong. To admit being wrong and act on it is a fools life. The whole conflict here just highlights the rot that exists, I don't think everything ph-fund does is crap if it got more authors motivated to post, stay and build. But the means to get there is still using people's posts as tools. There are cleaner ways to fund a project if the community they built on knows how to give back without peer pressuring the 50% beneficiary gimmick.

PH Fund could learn something from other curation groups, they don't require people to use beneficiaries or community tags, and the authors supported do not necessarily require the people to give support or votes back. Only when the votes stop coming will the community members stop supporting the community, that's one red flag I see that the community was never built on good foundation but on votes.

So now PH fund has less delegations and more members in need/wanting those votes, they released an announcement to stop promoting? lol. Not a healthy sign of growth.