I haven't engaged with him much but seeing how he instantly goes for the offensive and waving some kind of "I'm more intellectual than most of you" wand around I can see why people would want to downvote him for the fun of it too.

I have to fight that within myself. I don't think I am more intellectual. He might, I can't speak for him.

I can tell you we do interact with groups of people that are frequently attacked, censored, and otherwise ostracized. That does tend to develop a certain set of skills in people.

It manifests differently but being on the defense is part of it. He definitely approaches it different than I did.

Before I discovered steemit I used to occasionally wade into reddit and back then I called it "trench warfare".

That environment does change people. We can also be quick to jump on things we've seen people say many times to us.

Yet unlike some people we usually won't just ignore you because you used some canned narrative we've dealt with many times. We'll try to make you think about what you said.

I tell you now. My goal is not to get anyone to agree with me completely. I think that would suck and be very boring.

I only want people to think. I don't want people to allow their minds to get trapped in a routine, a rut, a channel. Think freely.

A lot of brilliant and wonderful things can happen within a free mind.

I have nothing against you. I actually don't have anything against the person that inspired my post.

I've up voted both of you from time to time. I think I may have had you as a witness vote for a few years(If you were a witness... I don't see you in the list now). I'd have to check. If not I'd consider it as some of my votes are likely no longer around and doing much as witnesses.

I think I likely will become quite active in PoB as one of my main stomping grounds but until recently I didn't consider it my primary community.

I used to be one of the directors of #informationwar back in the steemit days so for me that was naturally my stomping ground. Now there is a lot of overlap between that community and PoB.

can't wait to see Kingscrown trending there next I guess

What is that?

As to marketing... if I could market anything I'd be pushing the PAY token as I suddenly have a shit load of that. :)