People can lobby me on my posts and sometimes I remove the downvotes

I see that as reasonable. If people are abusive there is a way on Hive to suppress that abuse, DVs. It doesn't do much against spam or scams, because those aren't seeking author rewards which is what DVs primarily impact. It works well to prevent plagiarism and AI socks because those are seeking rewards from posting.

However, posts that aren't spam, scams, plagiarism and AI shouldn't be flagged. If someone stops being abusive, they stop justifying DVs. DVs can be abusive just as much as the things that justify DVs, and you and Marky need to tread delicately to prevent yourselves becoming just as abusive as the abuse you do work so hard to stop. I see that Marky does not tread so delicately, and there are others that don't even try. There are financial reasons that DVs are abused, and I have pointed out to Marky his indelicacy lends the appearance that suggests he is participating in that pecuniary scheme for that indirect profit. I have found him to discuss forthrightly and reasonably, even to tolerate my excessive verbosity with admirable restraint that compelled me to sincerely apologize to him once. After I realized my actions had become abusive I radically reformed. While I vehemently disagree with him about some things, mostly our views on financialization and it's impact on Hive, I have sought to only speak to him with respect he deserves, and only address our disagreement when it was immediately relevant, and that isn't often. We know each other's views on these matters, and belaboring him about it won't change that.

Anyway, it isn't directly financially rewarding to suppress abuse on Hive (except to HW), but for substantially staked accounts it is indirectly so, because the more stake an account has, the more rewards they can extract. Whales extract >90% of the rewards from the pool, and DVs send rewards that would go to other creators to the pool where whales extract most of them. This has the inevitable effect of centralizing stake, which further deranges governance, curation, marketing, and on and on.

No one that can do anything about it wants to hear it, so I don't often bring it up, but it's relevant to you because you're suppressing abuse and should well understand the downstream effects you have so that you can ensure the effects you are responsible for are things you honestly respect yourself for, or at least have that ability.

Frankly, I think that reaching out to KillerG is beyond respectable, it's compassionate. I have just pointed out to him in another comment that his treatment of you is outrageous, dehumanizing, and abusive, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and demonstrating to all and sundry that the flags on his abusive spam are justified. FFS, you even upvoted him for saying it was a waste of time to talk to you! It's hard to imagine anyone finding you at at fault here, or him justified.