I get that some people don't like downvotes, but it is effective at dealing with abuse. Blurt's solution is to charge for transactions, but you can post a lot without investing much, if you want to. There's just not much development going on there. I played with it, but Hive is a much better platform. Just don't bother with Steem as it's not really decentralised. They censored my account.

Obviously you made some enemies here, but I don't know all the history. Some people hold grudges. If you can bring people to Hive then please do. They have a chance to earn.

I'm not in favour of driving people away from Hive over differences of opinion. It should be open to all. I only tend to downvote when people abuse it with voting rings, spam etc. Self votes are a contentious issue too.

Peace.