You have to attribute some of that to steem price being in the shitter. You should kick off your shoes and stay a while, for entertainment value if anything. Better yet, take a step back, cancel your power down and just follow the @curie trail and vote it 100% for a while. Come back in 6 months.
A dozen people joined the SFR discord within minutes (in a few cases) asking how they can help fight abuse on STEEM. Most mentioned it was because of the 'free downvotes'. I now see people downvoting that were otherwise idle before because they wanted to preserve their upvote for followers. There's a lot of pent up energy that's being released in my opinion.
The people who get the bulk of the downvotes should leave, and it's okay if they get upset. If people are are upset because they are getting downvoted without cause or for retaliation, I want to know about (along with others) that so I can help restore some of those rewards.
I sent them to you from Splinterlands.
thanks for the comments @joshman.
when you say people are fighting abuse, are they fighting the whales that abuse this place (we all know who those accounts are) or are they just attacking the little guys that wander in and out from time to time?
And thanks again for the advice!
I think the momentum is heading in that direction. You could also use your stake to further that cause as well-- it all adds up. If you don't really need to sell the steem, keep your powder dry, because I think those efforts are forthcoming.
I don't need to sell, I'll just keep it liquid and power it up if there is ever a good purpose. I won't remove any more delegations either. I'll watch and see what develops, and of course will be happy if they can make something solid happen!