So, in other words, after your visible self-votes were called out, you tried cheating the reward pool with hidden self-votes, got caught and now have to make up excuses about "troll bait".

Got it, thanks for clearing that up.

I will be downvoting the post if it gets significant rewards since I don't believe your whiny complaints about either a) not earning enough money, and b) attempting to earn more money by with hidden self-votes and it not working out are deserving of additional reward.

As you pointed out, I've supported many initiatives including yours, but Steem/it and its user base and evolves, as do voting practices. The same people won't always be earning all the time, in the same ways, nor will the percentages of the reward pool allocated to the highest earners always be the same. Times change. Evolve.