I'm 100% sure it's not my team! We have agreed to this, even though some didn't agree with this approach at first. Have you seen this video from the Listnerds team? They are actually asking people to downvote content they don't agree with. Your increased downvotes may be because of this. I bet if you try to figure out what content doesn't get downvoted, and share something people enjoy reading but (very important) add your own thoughts to the email when sharing, you will see that this helps your emails to get verified. It doesn't even have to be complicated content, add your thoughts, your own words and you're already improving!
Again, we aren't downvoting you anymore as we are hoping you take this opportunity to improve and start being a better content creator. That way, we all benefit from your journey as we may read something valuable! We are very excited to see people improve their content and I'd invite you to read some of my guides you can use these as a reference for when you don't know how something works. Hopefully this helps.
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