OK! Let me throw in my two cents here. I have also received worth of 0.001 STEEM from @steemvote via memo as a way of promoting his/her service.
And I did not take it personally because I know it could be of some help for us minnows, who are looking for exposure within the community, even though the ROI of using these type of services is just pennies, not to mention when you include the curation rewards into the equation, it would almost like a total waste of time.
I do not intent to take side here. I am only expressing my views based on my experience. If you try to take a look at those popular accounts like @sweetsssj, et al, you'd be surprised to see a bottomless unsolicited memo lining up on their wallet transactions which are basically coming from various accounts begging for a fat up-vote considering the massive amount of STEEM POWER by which these whales/dolphins hold on their wallet.
To be clear, sweetsssj was just ignoring these people though because if you look at their posts, nothing has significantly changed in their payout anyway.
Given that, I totally understand where steemvote is coming from. And I feel sorry for what has happened to his/her reputation, the irreversible damage, etc.
I don't know, I might be wrong. But it's kind of an overkill I think to impose such tremendous damage to ones account unless, of course if steemvote was doing some deceitful act by not up-voting or re-steeming those people who have actually paid for the service in question.
It is not irreversible. @adm and @steamcleaners can remove their -100% votes, but Iam sure they will not. I read about a lot of steemers who were destroyd by the steemcleaners without doing something totally wrong. They just did not know better... but I think 1) everybode deserve a second chance and 2) nobody could have the power to destroy others.
OK! I was wrong! steemcleaners changed their downvote and Iam very grateful for that!! Thank you @steemcleaners - I will not send advertising memos anymore.