So what I found interesting, after acting independently and discovering some spam which you at least twice in this post pointed out is a good reason to downvote; I downvoted that spam. One out of two accounts has since changed their ways, and I applaud them. They are no longer making a mockery of this place and taking advantage of automated upvotes; showing signs of integrity once again. Now they're publishing actual content and at the same time setting a good example for others, instead of ruining their reputation while looking foolish and shady at the same time. Let's hope it lasts.

The other just keeps posting the same junk spam template over and over and over and over and over and over. Collecting automated upvotes for no reason other than spam. And according to you, that's not good, at least, based on what you say here.

That behavior pisses a lot of people off here. So, one saw the error in their ways and as of this writing has gone back to earning instead of being a lazy spammer (which is something nearly everyone here hates), and the other is just confused or something and can post a video in four places but can't seem to figure out how to post it the fifth place(here).

Anyway, cool story bro. Especially about the part where you think those downvotes on the spam are meant to repress some kind of truth or whatever that the world can't live without. How is downvoting spam links that lead to information on the outside of Hive in several different locations supposed to silence that content that doesn't even exist here? Did you forget to think about that part when you started rambling out this post?

And there are some things you said I agree with. Voting blind, in general, is never a good idea. Look at what happened to some of those folks who voted for witnesses by proxy, and because someone was in charge of their decisions, innocent bystanders lost out once the account shifted over to Hive. Personally, I don't even use auto voting services with my stake. Every vote I ever handed out was manually and after I actually enjoyed the content.