People who have been upvoting my latest two posts on Steem may have seen that they have gone from more than 0.100 STU each post to 0.000 STU. There is a reason for it and this post is about explained what happened there and my next actions to compensate those curators. You may have seen I am currently powering down. Nothing to be afraid about. In this post I explain it.

What happened

Two days ago I received a message from Hive account@crypto.piotr with an attached memo on it and 0.003 STEEM as the transaction fee. Normally those messages include only 0.001 STEEM. My policy is to burn those fees. I perform that by sending them to Hive account@null.

Those 0.003 STEEM were "burnt" as expected. After looking the spammer activity on the blockchain, it was pretty clear to me that it was a real spammer, even a bot. Just take a look at all those "I am not a bot" messages.

Then I downvoted his latest post. I did it with a 100% VP downvote, causing it as much as 0.01 STU.

The next event is the 50% downvote by that steemian of my latest post, the one where I explained my new curation policy. He also commented on it claiming that I don't have anough Steem Power to add any reward to any post.

Then I replied to that comment, insulting him and providing a few proofs that his claims were wrong.

As a response to my insults, the steemian downvoted also another one of my posts, this time with an 100% VP. Those two downvotes made both posts rewards 0.000 STU.

What went wrong

I should have not downvoted the spammer content, as I think that caused him to get angry. Of course I should not have insult him. Both actions were my fault.

What I will do

As those two actions make rewards going to 0, I should take responsability on my actions as upvoters became unexpected collateral damage on them.

I will power down 2 STEEM and will divide it between those who upvoted that content before the downvote took place. Those upvoters should expect something around 0.100 STEEM being trasfered to them after 1 week from now. Bots -sbi and steem-ua- will be excluded.

That is much more than what they would have received as a reward from my posts. I appreciate those who upvote my content and I don't like to see they don't get anyting from their spent RC and voting power.

Other thoughts

After looking into the delegation information for the Hive account@crypto.piotr account on SteemWorld, I was quite surprised to see a good steemian and photographer like Hive account@mariusfebruary to be his biggest delegator of Steem Power. I wouldn't be feeling too fine knowing that such big amount of VESTS -15 MVests- has been used in such a destructive way. His delegation accounts for more than 50% of the downvoter Steem Power.

Everyone must do with their own STEEM whatever they want to. Still, all of this is only my fault and that's why I chose to transfer those 2 STEEM to the upvoters. However, I would be ashamed if my delegated Steem Power was used the way this steemian decided to.

I did wrong and must pay for it, not saying anyone else is also guilty on my acts. I chose to downvote and I chose to insult him. Nothing else matters on this event.

Finally, to all my followers, a huge sorry for my latest actions on the Steem blockchain.