The dao wars have officially started due to abuse of hivewatchers, and the goal, for now, is to take away their dao funding. There is a lot of funny business going in central/eastern Europe that is beyond the scope of what I plan to write and what i have fully researched, but a common factor is guiltyparties. If you want to research the matter further, look into the questionable marketing and alleged abuses of valueplan. See https://peakd.com/@blanchy/ posts, and @themarkymark is critical of both these projects as well.
The endhivewatchers bot, and downvoting curation trial, is designed to downvote hivewatchers supporters with pending rewards near the last few minutes. That does indeed to be the case at the time of my last query:
...{"id":174229,"proposal":{"creator":"hivewatchers","daily_pay":"95.000 HBD","end_date":"2026-07-31T00:00:00","id":293,"permlink":"the-hivewatchers-and-spaminator-operational-proposal-for-the-period-2024-2026","proposal_id":293,"receiver":"hivewatchers","start_date":"2024-02-01T00:00:00","status":"active","subject":"The Hivewatchers & Spaminator Operational Proposal for the Period 2024-2026","total_votes":"69165690841869008"},"voter":"lanzjoseg"}...
The remedy, to prevent future downvotes, is to simply remove support of the hivewatchers proposal, which can be done at https://peakd.com/me/proposals
There is supposed to be a positive curation trail for supporters of the return proposal #0 [but not those also supporting hivewatchers], but I am at a loss to explain why it isn't working. my guess is that hive.vote can only handle one registered curation trail at a time; I am hoping to test that theory shortly, maybe in the next 30-60 minutes.