Not too long ago—about a month ago—I started receiving a series of downvotes from a whale's account. Every single post I made for a week was downvoted by around $8 ±, and I was baffled as to why I was being targeted. The account responsible for the downvotes never posts or even comments. I didn’t reach out to them because I assumed they wouldn’t bother replying, given that they seemed like a silent account.

I try to not complain on here anymore because it's just tiresome and nothing ever changes. But the weirdest thing to me is how appreciator almost daily will upvote people that barely have 500 HP and have almost never curated other people. Even now there are people on here that have less HP than I do and still make $30 per post despite having made 60k HP historically. They almost never get that downvote to adjust rewards. Funnily I received a few downvotes from an account the other month because of my HP held yet none of these actual extractors are ever targeted.

There are two or three accounts (that I know of) that downvote posts that get what they'd consider a bit too high rewards under the argument of distributing the pending reward pool a little more. Again, they never appear on the people that probably do deserve it more than others. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

There's a problem with Hive that some people consider others to be making too much as well, it's a bit of an odd concept and stops Hive from being to really grow and attract different types of creatives though. Can't say I have a solution to that, but the idea of there being too high rewards for some is a bit of a platform restriction. And at the same time, I would even argue that there are people that make too much on here already and it doesn't trickle down.

It's all a bit messy given there's never really a fair way of going about any of this. If I were you I'd just keep doing your thing, if someone believes your posts are over-rewarded, let them deal with it and don't bother downvoting your own stuff. Maybe even point them towards the people that are making $30 per post while having 500 HP in their accounts. It probably won't lead to anything, but whatever.