Saying downvotes weren't personal never stopped them from feeling personal. It's the wrong answer to the autovoting problem. Downvotes should be reserved for people who plagiarize, spam, use bid bots, and otherwise attempt to manipulate the reward pool for themselves. Content creators who never asked for autovotes should never be treated as collateral damage. It's the downvoting pattern of Curangel that led me to stop delegating my HP. It'll take some time before I feel confident enough in this change of policy to reconsider supporting it again.