Soliciting or winning some SP or SBD without "proof of work" defeats the purpose of steemit.

I thought SBD/SD was supposed to be money, used like money and given for any reason?

Also, I didn't investigate if the Original Poster truly only has 3 downvotes, all on one post, but if that is so, and that caused significant reputational damage, that does seem unbalanced. While I don't understand the new reputation system yet, I do know most Steem voting mechanism are weighted and the number (3) of votes isn't relevant, but still it seems unbalanced.