Well my friends. It looks like I picked up a downvoter.
The best response to unwarranted downvotes is to stop posting on the platform. Smart users take the additional step and sell their HIVE. Sadly, I am not smart.
If I was smart; I would have liquidated my account back when it was worth $11,000.
Apparently, the downvote trend is led by whales who believe that they need to protect the precious reward pool from small accounts.
The stated reason for the recent downvotes is that I am an evil reward harvester who is abusing the rewards pool. gasp.
Lets measure the scope of my HIVE spam. HIVE stats says that in these last 8 years I've dropped 4302 post (Hivebuzz says 594 posts and 3702 comments).
I've harvested 1,173.97 HP for my evil posts.
I confess openly that I posted on HIVE for the reward.
Lest see: 1137/3702 = 0.307. With HIVE trading at a dime we see that 0.307 HP is almost three pennies a post.
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I've kept all of my ill gotten author rewards as HIVE POWER.
I mention this to ask the question: Is the poor performance of HIVE the result of small accounts who harvest petty rewards, or is the poor performance of HIVE caused by whales who are harvesting huge rewards?
There are whales who are harvesting much more than me.
Harvesting Curation Rewards
In addition to harvesting author rewards, I've been upvoting posts to harvest curation rewards.
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I came to the conclusion a few years ago that the best way to play Steemit/HIVE was for curators to buy a big chunk of HIVE and to power a portion of their curation rewards.
So, I bought a big chunk of HIVE. This is how I got my account value up to $11,000.
After i achieved my HIVE investment goal, I started powering down a portion of my curation reward.
Okay, I've been putting my rewards into #hive-engine where the rewards disappear into ill fated HE projects.
My Current Project
Speaking of #hive-engine. At the end of the year, I decided to create a hive tribe. I just spent 1100 BEE to create a token and making it stakable. I was preparing to spend the 1000 BEE to create a smart contract.
So, I got downvoted for trying to build a hive engine token.
Not to give up secrets. I wanted to create the tribe to show a group of people who have real money.
Getting the down votes was fortuitous. Because of the downvotes, I decided to abandon the tribe in mid stream. I will kiss that 1100 bee good bye.
I repeat. The proper response to downvotes is to stop dropping posts on HIVE. If you receive down votes; you should leave.
My Activity on SteemIt and Blurt
Apparently one of the reasons for my downvote is that I've been posting on Blurt and SteemIt.
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It is funny. The reason that I've been posting on Blurt is that I truly fear downvotes.
Every time I write a post I ask the question: Is there any chance that this post might trigger down votes?
If there is a chance that the post might trigger a downvote, I don't publish the post.
Here is a case in point. I wrote about 12 posts for the learn to code a year ago.
I started writing some posts about PHP. PHP is not popular and might receive down votes. I dropped that idea.
I learned to write in Rust and Zig. Rust and Zig programmers are mean judgmental people. They attack people who think outside of their boxes.
I decided to stick with C.
I started writing a post about strongly typed v loosely typed programming. I wanted to say that it is best to choose strongly typed languages.
As I was putting the words to paper a troubling thought jumped in my brain. The thought was "Type is an artificial construct."
The reason that c is such a miserable language is it has a convoluted approach to strings. C programmers struggle to make the string type work.
I realized that, if I wrote a controversial line like "Type is an artificial construct" in a HIVE post, I might get down voted. The down voters wouldn't understand the reasoning behind my post ... but they would down vote anyway.
I then looked at the posts I had written for 
I felt sick.
I Post on Blurt Because of the HIVE Down Votes
After I write a post, I look at it and ask: Is there any reason that ideological enforcer on HIVE might down vote?
If there is a reason, I don't publish the post.
I have a hard drive filled with posts that I wrote for HIVE and never publish. Many of them are quite good.
HIVE is such an ugly and toxic place that I fear writing posts about programming code on the platform.
I don't see how turning HIVE into a toxic wasteland where people fear discussing ideas benefits the platform.
Here is a Real Whale of a Problem
I am being down voted because I harvest rewards from the precious rewards pool. I have harvested 1,173 HP in the last seven and half years with my 4302 posts.
That 1,173 HIVE came from the reward pool ... when it could have gone to whales!
Guess what? the 1173 HP that I harvested is bug squat.
In my opinion. The big issue that is killing HIVE is the stupid interest on HBD.
Last quarter HBD holders converted about a million HBD to HIVE. At a dime, the million HBD would generated ten million HIVE.
10,000,000 is significantly larger than the 1,000 that I harvested from HIVE.
I have to repeat this. If a whale downvotes your posts, you should stop post. Smart users vacate the platform.
The last report showed that at 15% interest, we were paying over $100,000 in interest a month on HBD holdings. With HIVE trading at a dime, $100,000 converts to over a million HIVE a month.
HBD holders converted a million HBD to HIVE last quarter. This is the thing that pushed the price of HIVE under a dime. We paying a hundred thousand HBD in interest a month. That is a million HIVE. the debt pushes down the price of HIVE.
Anyone foolish enough to say that on HIVE is inviting down votes.
The censorship on HIVE is sickening.
Conclusion
The down voting community puts forward that claim that small accounts abuse the pool by harvesting from the precious rewards pool.
The precious rewards pool is for the exclusive use of whales.
I say that idea is bunk.
HIVE was killed by the decision to pay 20% interest on HBD.
The HBD holders converted a million HBD to HIVE last quarter. The HBD interest is the thing that pushed HIVE below a dime and not posts small accounts.
Anyway, the correct response to receiving downvotes is to stop publishing on HIVE. Smart people power down and sell their HIVE. I probably won't do that for awhile.
I generated the spammy ai-image of a downvoter on Night Cafe.
I guess this will be the last post I write on HIVE for awhile.
I am giving up on my HIVE project. I will kiss my 1100 BEE goodbye.
Sadly, you will never see what I was planning on doing. It was a project that had the potential to bring thousands of users, with money, to HIVE.
I really don't understand how driving people off the platform benefits the platform. I never saw how 20% interest on HBD could benefit the platform either. I will probably continue blurt and steemit and will experiment with other platforms ... there are a lot of competitors to HIVE out there.