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Well, you defend someone who is trading votes, and blame the people who knowingly take the risk to get retaliation downvotes for using the way the system provides to counter groups voting in circles, and redistribute the rewards to everyone else.
Maybe you're too new to understand what's going on, but then you probably shouldn't be taking sides before having read the whitepaper and understand that downvotes exist specifically for this kind of users.

You guys are really going to be busy downvoting because I see auto voting going on all day long and pretty much on every post that has a steemian with $$ behind it. I get some of the reasoning but this was a great post possibly his best which makes the downvoters look suspicious of voting with hard feelings instead of objective reasoning. Possibly punish "circle jerking" another way instead of downvoting a great post.

Oh yes, we are very busy :/ That's why there is a trail.
It was the post with the highest rewards, which gives the most back to the community. I doubt that the delegator who submitted it watched the video, I honestly didn't when I checked if it's a valid submission.
What other way would you suggest? It's the one and only tool the blockchain gives.

It seems wrong to downvote quality since that is the main focus you want for our post. Maybe a fine would be more appro pro for voting style that goes against the rules.

A fine? You mean take something out of the wallet? Who should decide on that?

We have upvotes to give rewards, and downvotes to take them. That's how the system works. Of course it's unfortunate when something with quality is shown to have been downvoted. I'd prefer a lot if he got an upvote from curangel instead of a downvote. But for that he would have to stop trading his rewards into regions the majority of users here can only dream of.
It's not that the reward would be really low now. It's still higher than a lot of other good quality stuff. Our goal is not to nullify it.

Maybe if technically possible. Treat it like a parking ticket that must be paid OR ELSE!

I think that would be better than snuffing out someones earned creative reward.

It's not possible as there would be someone who had to decide to give it.

The whole thing is that he didn't earn. First point, he trades votes, so he gets high rewards on everything he makes. And second, nobody has earned anything on here before the 7 days are over and it's paid out. It's intentionally like this, or every vote could be paid to the wallet directly. It's a process where the community decides how big a portion of the pool a post should receive.
An upvote assigns something more to that post, and all other posts get a little bit less.
A downvote assigns a little bit more to all other posts, and that post gets something less.
None of the two is bad, only maybe for some peoples egos.