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Hi, it's nothing personal - the free downvotes are provided to keep balance in the community and one of the main objectives is to flag users of bidbots that have destroyed the community's attraction to the wider world and broken the proof of brain principle that underlies Steem at it's core.

[@smooms] Thanks for your answer at first. We haven't used any bitbots. The only bot vote we have is from tipu provided by one of our supporters. I can understand people who flag users of bidbots because in 99.9% of cases those posts have next to 0 value but are selfboosted to infinity and beyond.

We put a lot of work into every issue we want to publish. Our project targets the german community and in that we have a few supporters. Some of them providing us with bot upvotes.

But I definitely get your point here.

The post I downvoted had a 100% upvote from Smartsteem, which it seems has generated over 1 million steem from the use of bidbots. I appreciate that it's not your fault if they upvote you - I am not downvoting you in this case, I am downvoting their vote which has influenced the trending page.