Thank you so much! I have in the past had people removed themselves from curangel curation trail as well due to use of their stake to downvote content of mine they actually supported! Strange use of curation trail, if you ask me, considering curation trails are meant (or at least advertised) as being all about rewarding specific content, not countering rewards.

And yes, it does seem that the most prominent repeat downvote offenders (over disagreement on worldviews anyhow) either don't put much effort into their own content or aren't even content creators at all, but rather investors/developers attempting to shape the platform into their own image of what is and is not allowed/encouraged/rewarded on here. I appreciate that you support the free expression of ideas and opinions, as it is of utmost important to recognize the importance of not suppressing ideas we personally don't agree with.

I personally read much of the 'other side' of the argument on many topics I research and feel all the more informed for it, and would never dream of wishing such posts/articles be suppressed or discouraged in any way, even when I think they are the most absurd nonsense I've ever read. I can always just write my own post or make a video or meme or whatever, pointing out just how ridiculous or 'wrong' something is, anyway, if I really disagree with it that strongly to care so much! Sadly, others don't see things the same, and feel suppression, censorship and punitive actions directed towards that which they don't like is the only way to 'progress'. To me, that is not progression, but regression, but hey, I'm just one of those crazy conspiracy theorists in the minds of folks like that, so my opinion doesn't count anyway :)