Downvoting because he's selling Hive for Steem, that I find a bit extreme. Ok wounds are still fresh, could be triggering but hey you earned something you are free to do whatever you want with.

Agreed, it's tacky, but not a good enough reason. It's the rest of it that burns me too!

Why would you need 2+ different accounts posting on the same platform if it was not to trick people upvotes ?

It's quite normal to avoid autovotes or to post only to a specific community, but people are normally transparent about it.

The guy is not even telling us he's wrong, he cares only about his milk.
As you said he's a big gambler and this one didn't work.

It's sad because his content isn't bad, just the behavior. Some of the same people trying to defend him, would have no issue with erasing the rewards and chasing off someone less popular and with a smaller wallet who was behaving the same way.