There is one sure fire way to avoid any type of senseless often hysterical down votes from 
Write quality post, don't get too wrapped up in all of the "how to make it on steemit" shit video's from youtube, stay off of discord scam channels and the simplest of all (the no-brainer method) Don't buy fucking votes.
You are missing the entire purpose of what is going on
You are stealing from others, you are removing value from steemit by wasting you SBD's on bot votes in place of powering up and making everyone money in place of just yourselves and the vote-bots
Many users are then turning around and making a profit off of post about the
Any real user who was concerned about the community would be making those post DECLINING rewards for those post not looking for boo hoo votes while buying more votes from vote bots
Guess what guys, did you ever stop to think?
Each user has the right to upvote themselves as often as they like
I bet a quick glance at steemworld.org will show all of the bitching and whining users upvote themselves
They complain about whales upvoting themselves for hundreds of dollars????? Are they retarded? Whales can only upvote themselves that much because they own the fucking Steem Power to have that big of a vote
They are not wasting all of their SBD's to buy more votes, they trade them for more steem to add more Steem power so they have a bigger vote
That is called smarter than you
They put their money in their account and reward themselves with the interest (upvote) from their bank account.
I love steemit but many users failing to build their accounts while bitching about others who did, just look like monkeys at the zoo throwing shit at each other
Stop buying votes and power up
Problem solved
Thank you for your service 
I hope you all get to move on to the next phase of fixing this place