Yes, it was a bit excessive. :-)
This is a good example of an appropriate use of a balancing downvote. Countering a single perhaps overly generous upvote.
In contrast nuking lengthy original posts to zero because of political differences is what I am concerned about.
Me too and I have been one of the few countering some of those, that is if the authors haven't behaved like small babies over them.
Except that your account ocdb is 2nd only to curangel for doing the downvoting of long, original content, because you disagree with it.
I can literally prove that what you're saying isn't true. I haven't downvoted you with ocdb. I've downvoted 3 posts of @ura-soul, one with mostly quotes about tether, one was a bit longer with text + quotes of people's comments but was about disagreement of downvotes which I don't find valuable nor "content" and the last one was of a video clip on 3speak that wasn't his along with very little text.
Are you thinking of lucylin? Either way I'm pretty sure I've downvoted a lot more with this account than ocdb but it hasn't been cause I disagree with the content, it's been the rewards.
As I've made clear from the beginning of this, and which you keep ignoring: This is about systemic behavior, and was never about ME getting downvoted.
So, your actions don't count if you use a different account to commit them?
OCDB has downvoted plenty of content from ura-soul, dbroze, and many others, just in the last couple of weeks - AND you're downvoting with your personal account(s) as well.
Even if you never downvoted content with ocdb, I would still be urging people to withdraw support; because of your actions as a whole.
Cool and people who aren't braindead and understand my downvotes are there to protect the rewardpool from inactive leeches who bring no value to Hive will probably understand that it's curation same as all my manual upvotes and I'll continue doing that where I see fit.
You have that right, according to the code.
Just as I have the right to not only remove my support from your project(s), but to inform others of my decision, and why I made it.
If anyone chooses to remove their witness vote from us it still won't affect the curation from our project upon them.