Hey @crazyandy, apologies for not responding earlier.
We understand this is something blocktrade does to counterbalance ranchorelaxo curation, but we don't have the full story behind it, so it is not targetted at users specifically. That's very important for people to understand. It seems that these counter measures are random and doesn't happen for all users even if ranchorelaxo upvoted before blocktrades. We understand it's not a nice experience for users and unfortunate that users are caught in the process, but it's something that is out of our control as everyone is free to adjust reward payments as they see fit.
The team will discuss this to see if/what we can/should do. Thank you for raising it.
Sure, I understand that. Hopefully you will still be able to figure something out for the future...
Thank you for responding and hopefully see you soon in another Travel Digest :)