@dollarvigilante I hope you understand I'm trying to be helpful here.
We are not your regular audience. You're missing the mark with a substantial portion of the population. One person with seriously high rep just gave you a single downvote and one person with serious SP (a whale) also just gave you a downvote. The whale who downvoted you is widely considered to be someone who is extremely generous with his upvotes.
That's 2 downvotes from people with major influence on this platform.
Read @dana-edwards posts on stigmergic effects for a highlevel over view of what's happening right now. But basically there is hate and dissent being fomented and you're stirring it, unintentionally. You will need to counter this quickly and correctly or the community will begin to ostracize you.
Read my response to your "stahp" post for an indepth and personalized explanation of what's going wrong and how you can fix it right away, the right way. (you can always find my post by hitting ctrl+f and typing williambanks)
If it's too long to read, here's a summary.
Step back, take a big deep breath. Follow a few minnows you like and listen carefully to their concerns then use your status to help others. Maybe feature and highlight the quality stuff you find. You'll make more money, but more importantly so will they.
That stops the hate, resentment, jealousy, anger which all boil down to ...
fear
For everyone else, this video changed my life...
"That's 2 downvotes from people with major influence on this platform."
I have to say this is a major flaw of the Steem community that there are individuals "with major influence". Methods can vary but in essence its censorship. And I was under the impression that we have freedom of speech - so does the followers have the right to upvote what they find worth appreciating. So to all #whales - please share your thoughts with us but stop censoring our community.