Only 50% of the rewards flagged away from you go to the top 20 accounts, the rest goes to the restivus, mostly the top 100 earning accounts.
Probably best not to poke the baw/tmm bear without extensive investigation.
The people that make their blacklist have done something that lowered the value of the hive, in their opinion.
They used to hang out more in public, but have withdrawn as the futility of building a crowd here became more evident, or something.
Hw's has nothing to do with that, those two don't even like each other.