Yes, everyone who has ever signed up for steemit.com got this email. The reason it says we miss you and come back is because out of more than a million accounts that signed up over the past 3 years there are only about 20k active accounts on a monthly basis so it was prolly just easier for them to send out a blanket email focused on people who have left the platform rather than the few that are still here and probably already know what the fuck is actually happening with steemit these days.. As far as the downvotes go you should use different tags like neoxian and palnet and others that have their own tokens, that way if you do get downvoted on steemit at least you are still earning tokens on these other platforms because they would have to go through and downvote every tribe individually to stop you from getting those tokens too.. I know its not much but its something i guess. I liked your idea of only giving downvotes to people who create content, that was a brilliant idea to stop shit heads who are serial downvoting people to silence them on what should be an open platform to speak our minds..