I was one of those that have been a target of dv for quite a while now and at first, I have no idea why it was done to me when all my post were genuine and was doing everything to improve it's quality from using markdowns to creating my own thumbnails and dividers. It even becomes harder when the dv comes 2 times in a row that I have to wonder if I did something to pissed that person but when I learn that it was also happening to others, I decided to just shrug it off and when I finally learn the reason behind it, I accept that the dv is not going away anytime soon unless I stopped creating SPL content. That said, I believe one of the reason why Spl curators cannot curate within 24 hour window was because they want to keep their Vote Power at certain level to bring bigger amount of vote and with 3 different contest to curate, its hard to vote every entry that comes within 24 hours and at some point, they need to pause voting post.
That's not a good reason at all, voting power is quite flexible, it's not that important to always vote posts at 100% voting mana to give them as "much rewards" as possible. There's plenty of other voters who vote spl posts, I do some times too, voting posts late actually affects the authors for the worse as they won't get hot/trending time at all which makes other random voters not see those posts.
I can only guess the reason for their late upvote based on their activities. There was also thier automatic HP delegation to players to continue their transaction to the game and if im not wrong, they also previously run giftgiver but now, it would not really affect much on their vote given the current player base. Either way, the votes and dv's are both out of my hands and its the creators that becomes collateral damage.
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