Thanks and thanks! You have described the ethos that was present on Steem and for most people seems to still be on Hive - however, various 'inner circle' people decided that Hive has changed and that the 'new normal' involves unrelenting downvotes for whatever you feel like. Obviously this was not widely discussed or agreed upon. In fact, this is exactly the stance that @guiltyparties took before pointing me to the Hive whitepaper which actually has a section in which actually ommits the downvoting part of the consensus forming of rewards payouts (in a key section of the document). GP stated that he would have an urgent meeting with me to discuss the downvoting situation several weeks ago, but has been silent since then.

I would also like to point out that SILENCE is exactly the response from most of these characters, including @acidyo after I left a lengthy rebuttal to him recently. But hey, when you are king of the castle, you can do what the fuck you like right? I'm sure that never leads to any problems.. The plebs are just peasants. lol