I think it’s weird for a whale to criticize an open source project that is providing a public service to all and is funded from the pockets of others without first asking to contribute in someway.

I do believe we have an issue with groups of people unfairly downvoting ppl. While downvoting overall is a positive to give to prevent abuse, there are plenty of people abusing their downvotes and I have heard of many legitimate creators leaving hive because of having been downvoted. The fact that hive doesn’t have any content creators left should be clear evidence that this issue is part of the problem. I also advise several legitimate smaller fish who are doing incredible work spreading hive to post from anon alt accounts due to them being downvoted. It’s a total joke.

For me the downvote issue will have consequences for those abusing it when they don’t get included in legit large LII token drops and other things. The behavior is onchain forever and those who abuse it are quite widely known already