I am an authority on the technology of this platform, but I don't think I'm an authority on on it's social interactions. Many people on Hive are more aware of who-is-who, etc, compare to me.

This is partly my nature. Before Hive, I barely used any social media at all, because it's been my experience that typical social media systems like facebook/instagram/etc don't have information that I'm deeply interested in. I found facebook useful as a communication mechanism when I ran a table tennis club, but since I stopped doing that, I almost never use it.

Nonetheless, I do occasionally downvote ideas I read that I believe are not logical and spread disinformation and yet are still highly rewarded. Especially if my own time was wasted because of it. That's kind of the point of the voting system as it was designed (note it wasn't me that designed it and I do believe it can be improved, but I don't see the OP's comments at all useful in that process).

Ouch, that hurt :-)
You seem drunk with power to me

I don't think that's the case. But when someone drops their witness vote and feels that they need to inform me of the situation, I do find it a bit amusing that they think this is something that is of deep importance to me.

Now you've slandered him. What has he done to deserve the title of scam artist?

I saw that you saw one of the reasons I think he's a scam artist.

I'm sure he'll try to find some plausible explanation for it, but it's not the only thing that led me to think that. I've also just gotten a negative impression of him from his overall communication pattern, although admittedly I don't follow him very closely and maybe I've only seen the "bad" posts and not the "good" ones.