People on Hive have been posting anti-covid conspiracies since it started, many are still ongoing. Who knows how many may have died due to not protecting themselves with a simple mask cause they've read shit like this on the internet. It's been trending on Hive constantly and most downvotes land late when the algo has pushed it down from trending due to age either way.

Certain authors don't deserve to get zero'd, like your case, but other "influencers" I've seen that bring 0 value to Hive in any way shape or form and constantly trend and earn a big pie from the rewardspool due to these autovote is what I'm against the most.

Hive isn't throwing people adrevenue money where it doesn't matter if they're faking their views, comments or following cause it's someone else paying for those ads, this is stake that people have either paid for or held onto long enough. It should go to those bringing some value back to Hive, not just willy nilly be thrown around - doesn't matter if you've bought the stake yourself, post rewards you create and curation you get from them aren't guaranteed until a post pays out. If you're constantly voting up stuff that others disagree with you're going to end up with less inflation.

All these discussions over downvotes, "censorship" and endless walls of texts could've easily been turned into working towards a layer 2 token that would want to reward this kind of content and these kind of influencers. Until then I'm going to try my best to protect the reward pool and make sure it goes to users who are putting in work and being active, whether or not they're big outside of Hive or in their Hive wallets.

Here's an easy example, do you think user @highimpactflix is bringing value to Hive? I checked all his other socials, not a single mention of Hive, no traffic coming in, no views on his 3speak, barely any engagement from himself or others on his posts yet he's getting $50+ on every post before the downvotes.

Now let's look at @gubbatv, a big influencer according to her website and what I've seen on her Twitch streams, consistent 2k+ viewers. Even though she may not be bringing in traffic directly to Hive, she's at least using the platform. Blogging, showing her artwork, using dapps (nftshowroom) and engaging.

Would you rather someone who's somehow landed themselves big autovotes got the stake or someone who is trying, not getting autovotes no matter what she posts and might eventually start promoting Hive than someone who's not even trying, not promoting Hive but 20+ other socials (even steemit and dlive) and posting controversial content on top of it all.