Your contributions to the community have been enormous! Maybe @themarkymark could explain why he is downvoting you. It might be some kind of mistake.
From listening to the Hive dev meetings, my understanding is that there is wide agreement on removing the benefit of early voting. And that this is going to be implemented in the next hardfork. So with this change, which is specifically designed to stop autovoting, we should see the change that you have argued needs to be made and have this place be so much better for manual curators.
The main problem aren't a few flags which I received, but if for example the rewarded comments of the matchday winners of the Bundesliga prediction game get downvoted, it turns them off, they lose motivation.
It is also strange if the main post of a user like @borjan gets upvoted from @themarkymark who at the same time as @usainvote flags a comment of the same user (@borjan) under that post, only because I decided to support the author by upvoting the comment instead of the main post (same happened for example with a post and a comment of @schamangerbert).
Should I be forced to upvote posts instead of comments to support the curation snipers?
But well, maybe the majority agrees with that - I don't know.
But actually, I don't like to discuss this further here. Things are as they are, and I just need a HIVE break.