Sorry, but I have nothing to do with any of that stuff, I don't even follow it enough to know what you are talking about.

Most of my downvotes these days are either seeing overly high (in my subjective opinion) payouts on trending or still overly high (if generally smaller) payouts I see when randomly clicking around the site, often on the Hot page. Also spammers, and when I see something that looks like a voting circle or milking. But overall, every single one of my downvotes is opinion, not anything strategic or retaliation.

My downvotes are just opinion, nothing more.