You view curangel as a centralized entity, but it is not. It is actually decentralizing my own and other bigger users' stake by giving up control over it and making it available for a whole group of smaller users. Delegators decide what the downvotes are used on, I only check the reasons they give and figure if it's valid according to the whitepaper. You made yourself a valid target by participating in slowwalker's vote trading circle.

I am fully aware that you're not the worst player there, and before you went after the delegators with retaliation I made sure there's other posts when someone chose you, so you don't get hit too hard.

That said, I appreciate your willingness to further spread your votes. While I think a 20% shave isn't really significant, and would've preferred you stepping out of the circle completely (while remaining the self voting - there's nothing bad about voting for your own content, which you definitely can consider decent quality compared to the majority on here, once a day!), it's still a step in the right direction. So I will make sure curangel downvotes will not go towards you for now, and watch the progress.

Have a good day!