Hey @flummi97, I missed the Discord conversation between you guys, so I just read those. I saw you mentioned me(bdvoter) a couple of times and that's why I thought I should clear you guys what's happening here. Firstly you have to understand that.

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You have to accept the downvote the same way you accept the upvote. As I saw I have been upvoting you since June 2024, did you ever question me why I have upvoted you? No, you didn't So why so fuss about the downvote? Also, your post and other's posts downvote value is lower than the upvote value. I do know the downvote came because of bdvoter upvote, but the way you guys are reasoning is not actually right. There is no exploiting going on. The downvoter has been targeting bdvoter since 2023, It is his personal problem/jealousy with bdvoter. He hurt bdvoter curation with his alt account in 2023, then he targeted bdcommunity and successfully forced me to move my curation from bdcommunity to splinterlands. He paused a few months then he started again with these new excuses. The exploit they are talking its not my fault or exploit, it's not like 5-minute windows where I am snipping like it used to do in the past. It's a 24-hour window and it's open for everyone to upvote, so why should I not? Also, I am not only curating spl posts I am curating other topics posts as well & It is not like I am the only person who curating spl posts on the first 24-hour window, lots of other whales/minnows curating as well, so he doesn't have problem with others but only against bdvoter. This is called politics, so I suggest you not get involved with it. Now some of you might say stop curating spl posts I did that as well, but he still keeps going after my upvotes (@olaf.gui knows this because he reached out to me about why I am not curating spl posts). Even when Spl curators curated between the first 24 hours, he still downvoted those as well. So the so-called exploit is just a lame excuse. One thing you have to remember is that Hive is a DPoS-powered blockchain, in short, " everyone is free to use his hive power however he wants." So keep growing your Hive stake and participate in Hive Governance. That way you will be able to understand the hive blockchain and fight against the bully.