I spent all of September following @curangel's voting trail. I still upvote all of their daily posts. I agree they deserve support. Also, downvoting curation projects because they downvote your abusive behavior is not going to stop downvotes. It's probably just going to make more people team up on you.

Old Steem was broken. New Steem is better. It's not too late for these people to stop their abusive revenge downvoting. They will probably be forgiven. The amount of people still abusing the reward pool is shrinking every day. A lot of them are losing delegations or powering down. It's only a matter of time before it is just troll accounts or actually clueless people.

I had an idea I left in the comment of another post.

Why is it up to the dowvoter to explain why they downvote an account that bought a bid? Shouldn't it be up to the person selling the bid or offering a trading service?

It's like saying the doctor who treats the person who got shot should be responsible for gun safety education and background checks, not the sellers of weapons. Most of the people selling votes do not mention it is controversial and some of them do not even mention that a vote was sold most of the time (more and more they are trying sneaky ways) which destroys the 'promotion arguement'