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Unjust Downvotes case
On the 31st of August, out of the blue, all the pending rewards from my post were zeroed by the letusbuyhive account. No prior warning, no explanation! I made an Ecency wave tagging him for the explanation. I received no explanations for the downvotes! I asked around in Discord servers. I came to know that the account is run by azircon! I didn't reach out to him for the explanations. I kept posting. Surprisingly, I even got at least two 25% VP upvotes on my posts from the letusbuyhive. I thought that the previous DVs were a one-time thing! I was wrong!
On Friday, September 05, the next DV storm swept my posts and zeroed all the pending rewards! This time, azircon himself!
I made a comment under his last post, asking him to give me the reasons! He replied!
Reason 01:
your posts are either template posts, or spam that offers no value.
Yes. I use a template for my post. But, that's not the only part in my posts. I make at least 2-3 paragraphs, along with photographs, and those are different every day. On my last post, I have 5 paragraphs that are completely new!!
Reason 02:
You have no engagement at your posts and you don’t engage with others
There is no truth to this allegation. At the time of writing this post, I was at number 26 on the Ecency leaderboard! Last Monday when Melinda published the weekly leaderboard post, I was at number 18! There are no comments under my posts, waves, or snaps that are unanswered! On Friday evening, when I saw the DVs, I was even tipping Ecency points to those who interacted with my content!
Reason 03
You are also muted in numerous communities
That's also not correct! I didn't find a single community where I am muted!
His Final Verdict
From my point of view your posts do not require rewards so I removed them.
While over a hundred curators (Ecency curators, DUO project curators, EDS project curators, Alive and Thriving Tribe curators, etc) had different points of view!
I replied to him refuting his reasons-
He then replied
From my point of view, it is nothing but arrogance, and abuse of power!
From August 25, all of my daily posts' rewards (99.99%) have been taken away! Hence, I think, it's quite logical to stop posting for the time being. I am not going to take an impulsive decision by powering down and taking all the assets off the chain. I will be around, somewhat, maybe with Ecency waves and Peakd snap, with occasional long posts!
I am disheartened! I am a bit down now! Other than these, all good :)
Thank you very much for reading this far!
Hafiz