Remember when my post was downvoted because a whale thought it was making too much money? Right, who cares.
If whales are going to downvote for arbitrary reasons then they have the power to do it. The only thing any of us can do is outline the reasons we will downvote in advance so that the reasons aren't arbitrary. I've outlined my curation criteria but I'm not a whale.
The precedent has been set already only because now it is happening to someone high profile it's blatantly obvious.
Just because the precedent has been set doesn't mean it should continue. It's bad for the platform and it should stop. I first brought this up 3 months ago.