I don't think many have wanted to downvote his rewards based on just criticism about Hive or the way thinks work here. I.e. I don't think it was meant as censorship of visibility. I haven't engaged with him much but seeing how he instantly goes for the offensive and waving some kind of "I'm more intellectual than most of you" wand around I can see why people would want to downvote him for the fun of it too. I have read posts from him in the past so he already was in my "ah it's that fucking guy" memory folder and that was mostly from random people linking me to his stuff with a message of "check this idiot out".
Anyway, I'm glad he found a place where people reward him for the way he is, I guess. Though I do think PoB is just trying to pick some people bigger Hive stakeholders don't like just for marketing effect, can't wait to see Kingscrown trending there next I guess.