Im just a small shitposter but I follow well respected curation trails and I have been on the other end of retaliatory down-votes. Like you I dont let it impact my activity, because the platform is more important than the individual.
Dont stoop to their level by self upvoting consistently though.
Any energy coins you'd still recommend taking a look at? ;)
Specifically energy coins the only one I stay connected to long term is SolarCoin. I think their model is extremely slow burn but eventually so much SLR will be in so many hands something will organically take off.