Greetings @stayoutoftherz ,
Thank you for your kind query. The reason for my change of mind regarding a vote toward your witness in particular was that you gave a downvote to a user who posted with regard to the German Christ-mas Markets...even though you were kind enough to explain why you downvoted in the comments.
Bleujay has some thoughts regarding downvotes....
they are not good for the e'spirit d'corp of Hive in general...unless of course the post is criminal in nature......
they not only bring down the user's rewards but also the ones who used their HP to vote for the post.....
and in this case...the post was a reminder for many including Bleujay of the times they had celebrated Christ's birth by attending the German Christ-mas markets....so a natural exuberance emerged to see the memorable scenes...which was then tempered by the sock of Coal in the form of a downvote.
It has been a policy of mine not to vote for any witness who downvotes because they think the post is overvalued by Hivers...I think people/posters should reap the rewards of their various contributions to the Hive Community....Free enterprise...Winners/Losers.
This is not to say I will not change my mind later with regard to my witness vote for you...because I did appreciate learning we had shared values on some topics and always applaud finding common sense in Hive World.
Kind Regards, Bleujay
I see.
Well, I see it also as a responsibility of users with a higher stake to take care that the reward pool is fairly distributed. Often the very same authors make it into the trending posts as they are well connected and whales typically don´t take the time to scout for good content outside of their "usual suspects". In that case a relatively average post with many, but rather low-quality pics got >100$ in upvotes.
I explained it also to the author and she understood it.