I wouldn't say it's politics, it's more about fair distribution. I'm not familiar with your downvotes but I don't think it should come as a surprise or be something offensive if some smaller ones occur on large upvotes.

Taking a glance at your account it seems you do rather well and the content is excellent as well. Some times it seems you don't receive the upvotes you should get and other times maybe a bit too much but in my eyes you're at the point where it'd be a bit nitpicky to try and adjust rewards as there's a lot more obvious abuse and unfair rewards occurring in other places that could use the downvote mana more.

And reading @slobberchops reply, as much respect as I have for people who don't sell their rewards but grow their stake and (hopefully) use it well, it's not about that neither and I don't personally let that judge the way I curate posts and accounts. Those who choose to sell constantly may find themselves sooner or later having a hard time getting the support back with an increasing amount of authors/accounts striving after the same upvote mana they once used to receive. It's more about an investment from their perspective, they can either choose to stick around and potentially reap the real rewards later such as passive income/airdrops/whatnot or sell now and risk of never getting back to the stake they could've had/the active rewards they were once making in terms of Hive power.