@trafalgar you damaged a post by $17 by a project that aims to do good for the community and support undervalued content.
Our project doesn't have your level of SP, but I'll be downvoting $17 worth from any posts or comments of yours over time in response. A $17 downvote is a strong offense, I am very offended.
I am especially offended because if you got to learn about the project that I have spent a lot of time on, you would know that it is a wholesome project aiming to improve Steem. People like you enrage the projects trying to do good here.
I know your ideals, but my project is small and needs the visibility. We're also a bootstrap project, and getting back the rewards greatly helps our initiative. You hurt a postive initiative, making it more difficult to be seen when that is already a serious issue with the condenser setup.
You know what is really wrong with Steem? It is not bots, its bullies. Social sites should never give people such a disparity of influence.
Why don't you include a link to that "damaged post"? even $17 can be quickly reverted if enough people see the post and agree/disagree in the "right way". However, at the core of the problem is not if trafalgar removes the downvote, but rather, what will everyone else think about that post? A post that I myself can't even find, because you didn't provide any link/reference/etc..
I am happy to share with you the post, you are very welcome to learn about the HoboDAO project.
https://steemit.com/steem-engine/@hobo.fund/the-hobodao-contests-begin
My comment was not for others, however, it was specifically directed at trafalgar, a person with more influence over the network than thousands of Steem users combined. It is not easy to obtain $17 worth of upvotes from the community outside of bot services. Now, when I looked at your account, I noticed that you did use bidbots, but also your posts were progamming related posts. There is a lot more curation support for developers than any other type of project, so you might have a different experience from other types of authors and believe that it is easy to obtain $17 worth in upvotes. In reality, most of the whales upvote within their circles with the exception of supporting independent programmers.