Which is exactly why my post is asking for a middle ground. It doesn't have to be black and white. I'm not asking everyone on steem to have a voting pattern like this one:

That would be naive and maybe even stupid from me.

Again man, I'm not asking people - and I'm just a nobody and maybe shouldn't even be one asking or telling - to stop the selfvotes or friendvotes, just lowering them.

Middle ground.

Which is something that I believe you're already trying to achieve (or I might have read wrong above).

Don't make the selfvotes and friendvotes lower to zero, but how about 25%?

Would that be a reasonable amount?

I'm not asking you to drop your beliefs and convictions for mine, I'm asking you to come halfway. I don't impose my beliefs in you with downvotes everywhere and you don't impose yours with 50% vote trading (your words, not mine).

No battle (and I don't believe this is a battle) was won by just attacking each other, ever. There was always agreements and building bridges and not just flames and fire.

So meet me halfway, give my ideal of steem a chance and I promise to give yours a chance, by meeting halfway.

Oh and I have voted for you before, even when I had 250k steem power (if I recall correctly).

Your content is not bad and I do appreciate your opinion about mine, as you say, i don't think we are that different, we just have different ideas of how steem can thrive.

So instead of going into silly downvote quarrels, let's meet halfway. Don't adopt my ideas, make a better hybrid between your ideas and mine.