Now I'm not trying to just paint people in a dark light

I don't mind doing it.

This is related to @zaku's voting with @bdvoter which is mostly @freedom stake where he takes a massive 20-30% cut. @freedom is hands off and doesn't know/care how his stake is used.

They elusively vote Splinterlands content and has his community trained in posting Splinterlands content taking advantage of the late @steemmonsters vote, resulting in a much higher than normal ~14% APR on curation rewards, almost 50% higher than other curators. Add in the massive self voting, it was a very large unfair advantage getting both sides of the reward pool.

I've been downvoting a lot of this over the few weeks for this reason as well as other related bullshit going on.

But as usual, I'm the asshole here.