Your post rewards do not belong to you until it passes over 7 days.
I do know the downvote came because of bdvoter upvote, but the way you guys are reasoning is not actually right. There is no exploiting going on. The downvoter has been targeting bdvoter since 2023, It is his personal problem/jealousy with bdvoter. He hurt bdvoter curation with his alt account in 2023, then he targeted bdcommunity and successfully forced me to move my curation from bdcommunity to splinterlands. He paused a few months then he started again with these new excuses. The exploit they are talking its not my fault or exploit, it's not like 5-minute windows where I am snipping like it used to do in the past. It's a 24-hour window and it's open for everyone to upvote, so why should I not? Also, I am not only curating spl posts I am curating other topics posts as well & It is not like I am the only person who curating spl posts on the first 24-hour window, lots of other whales/minnows curating as well, so he doesn't have problem with others but only against bdvoter. This is called politics, so I suggest you not get involved with it. Now some of you might say stop curating spl posts I did that as well, but he still keeps going after my upvotes (@olaf.gui knows this because he reached out to me about why I am not curating spl posts). Even when Spl curators curated between the first 24 hours, he still downvoted those as well. So the so-called exploit is just a lame excuse.
One thing you have to remember is that Hive is a DPoS-powered blockchain, in short, " everyone is free to use his hive power however he wants." So keep growing your Hive stake and participate in Hive Governance. That way you will be able to understand the hive blockchain and fight against the bully.
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.
I want to make one thing clear, in case that may have come across as misleading: I don't understand the alleged problem between @bdvoter and @themarkymark in any depth and that's why I don't want to imply anyone is exploiting a system. So I apologize if that came across wrong.
And it's not really about the rewards. The time I spend publishing my blogs, I could have a part-time job and I would earn a lot more.
My point is rather that you should perhaps leave a short explanation if you get such a big downvote, because a downvote on Hive is rather “unusual” in my opinion. As the author of the blog, you think about what you might have done wrong. I think this scares off new users in particular.