@sanmi Hello, I know that you had only good intentions, as I described in the post also. You didn't get blacklisted even tough you've done the same thing, but that's because you brought this to zombee attention. So zombee was kind of biased. Like explained in the post unvoting was necessary because his algorithm made it impossible to curate good content. You know that I've always encouraged users and voted a lot of different people. The second day he told everyone that the blacklist will be removed in 2 weeks (proof in post).
I also liked dMania a lot and hoped for better changes for a long time, because it could have given a good chance to new users. That's the reason I was very involved all the time, it cost me a lot of my free time. But the head was corrupted and this was not possible on the long term.
About the whales that are taking more benefits and are doing something wrong, we will certainly see more post in the feature. If steemit inc decides to pay users for this kind of work, then there will be more concentrated forces working on this thing. For now, I think everyone is doing it for fee.
I wish you all the best in the future and thanks for clarifying this aspects.