I guess receiving a down vote is very emotional. Hell, when I recieve one just for 1 cent I get all inside my head: "WHYY!". It's not about the money, just the disapproval.
So I can imagine those people imagining they are in their right to buy up votes, might feel even stronger emotions when actual large accounts coming for them. (I'm part of your down vote trail as well).
In all honestly, people can complain and retaliate all they want. The business of bidbots has to go down and be kept down. This is the only way to do that right now.
I believe it's the right thing to do, compared to the shit show we were having before I much better prefer a couple of narrow minded people getting mad instead of a useless platform dominated by bidbots.
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