What I'm doing is keeping my rewards turned off on Hive, but they are on in VYB.

That way my posts can't be downvoted. Comments I'm still uncertain on - this one for example has rewards on and could be downvoted. But the ones I'm doing on the VYB front end have the rewards turned off.

Every comment I do is auto downvoted by spankinator at 1 min, which would lower my rep if it was 67 or below, but at this point my rep is still 69 even after all the downvoting, so it doesn't affect it.