I never said you were exploiting anything. In fact, I have said several times that you aren't, you're just upvoting as normal, as many people do, it just so happens that the way Hive voting works, is not very good for a manual curation system like Splinterlands has. It's very difficult for a team that includes people from different time zones, with their own jobs, to vote within the first 24 hours.
I couldn't disagree more with the narrative that everyone should accept downvotes as they do upvotes. I've seen discussions about downvotes in reddit and those don't even have any monetary value. A downvote has very negative effects that go beyond taking away rewards. Ultimately, they drive away people. It's one thing to use them to punish bad behavior or for spreading misinformation. It's another to use them just because you disagree with someone or even have a personal problem with them. We should not encourage bullying.