Part of the issue is that this is pretty one sided. It's people downvoting posts in our #informationwar or #deepdives that doesn't fit the MSM narrative they have been fed, so they see it and nuke it. Some accounts continually get nuked just for questioning why they were nuked(something bernie used to do and not many countered it).

In the #informationwar and #deepdives community there have been 5 or 6 people that I personally know that had a combined stake of over 250k HP, who powered it down and sold it off this year due to constantly getting downvoted.

Our @informationwar and @deepdives account combined projects so that we have more upvote power in order to counter DVs in our communities, but it isn't always enough.

We have been manually curating for over 4 years and have a solid mission(link in our about section on @informationwar). I am trying to get more delegations to @informationwar so that we can continue to manually curate and get some sort of reward, it's super tough to read for 30 to 60 minutes every day for a part time curator while earning like 4 or 5 Hive from curation rewards/day.

Some of the larger projects have like 5 to 10 people curating and they have huge delegations and followings. Our group has just been puttering along for awhile, and we have an influx of new people posting into our communities that are seeing the censorship can be worse here, your rep can get zeroed and all your posts never show up unless someone already follows you.

I agree with downvoting obvious spam/theft of content and stuff not labeled NSFW that should be, but other than that I don't understand why people focus on "over rewarded" content for only the political realms and not for everything else. I don't see anybody downvoting the 50 to 200 USD posts about travel blogs/food blogs and other stuff that is likely stolen content by content farmers. Most of the posts on trending take almost no thought to make and are just blindly upvoted by whales to get their curation rewards.

Maybe one day the truth community will have a lot more power and be able to better defend ourselves, but seriously, nobody and I mean nobody in the truth community is downvoting these posts on trending and if there's anything that certainly needs to be "adjusted downwards" for being overrewarded its every single post that is in the top 100. We could go on a huge downvoting spree and rile up all our 100+ upvoters in the curation trail to start handing down -50USD downvotes to these posts(which is aboutt what we could do) but we don't do that ever and don't plan on it. Instead we get downvoted without ever having downvoted others first, while those same downvoters give out huge upvotes to pure garbage that can be found on instagram/twitter.

And the second that our group started getting DVers out there, you better believe all the whales would crash down on us ever harder. Posts in #informationwar or #deepdives would never be positive again if we all started downvoting the shitposts the whales are upvoting. It's too one sided.

That's my .02 Hive.