You shouldn't view it as being 'punished' for anything

I'm merely using my stake to try to disincentivize people from buying votes which strongly undermines organic curation

When this was the norm before the latest HF, most stakeholders, myself included, resorted to reclaiming their voting rewards somehow (selling votes, self voting, voting circles etc.) The economic incentives favored this so much over honest curation that the system was unable to correct itself.

This is no longer the case under the improved economic incentives of NewSteem. Many have chosen to take an active stance against these old behaviors that completely eroded our platform.

An community leader like yourself with an established following should be confident in their ability to bring attention to what they have to say without the need to contribute to undermining our proof of brain system by buying votes.

As to the actual post itself, the information may be of use to some, but I did not deem it to be worth $60