I can't disagree with you there. I occasionally view the "muted" area for people that I feel were over-downvoted and I try to help correct that with my little HP (excluding the REALLY weird stuff, spam, plagiarism, nobody likes that 😛).
And well, this is how I found Kenny and started following his posts a bit, I get that some folks are "over rewarded" but I'm really not a fan of the 'zeroing' that can happen to these folks, it feels hostile, and certainly to the creator, and that's what I feel triggered Kenny recently, most creators would probably feel the same way.
RE: After dedicating 5.5 years to Hive/Steem, I've been informed by KING ACIDYO that I added no value