Yes, it feels like a personal attack when you get a red flag and you don't know why it is being done.
You can see what @smooth did here, gave me a downvote of $ 7.08. It doesn't feel right because I don't think he even looked at my post. When @smooth provides such a powerful downvote, he should comment on that too
Hey I feel you, one of my post was also flagged by smooth, I think it's because I wrote the post in English and my writing skill isn't very good. But still even knowing that and knowing probably smooth wants to make the rewards look more fair to the quality, I certainly didn't feel very good that day.
It feels a bit like someone thinks you are not worth it. I think the problem is also steem is just lack of top notch quality posts at the moment. If there are loads of high quality posts, we will admit maybe our posts aren't worth, but now it's not the case yet.
Did you use bidbot?
Hi @joythewanderer
Earlier, long before HF21, I also used bitbot to promote posts, but I understood that using them was no longer my way.
I also delegated to budbots before to increase my profits, but have also stopped
delegating to them.
Now I'm leasing out SP to other users now, a small part
I see that sometimes I get votes on my posts from the bidbot
But they vote of their own freedom, I don't pay for it