Thank you for discussing this with me!

I understand the use of downvoting to stop the rewards pools being drained, but, unfortunately, many a small account has had their valuable posts downvoted to zero because someone with a large upvote disagrees with their content, or with their affiliation to some other account, or that some other large account has upvoted their post. I am also disturbed by what appears to be auto-downvotes - one whale downvotes, and a slew of other downvotes come in immediately afterwards. This has only happened to me once, and it was very traumatic. I would have left but for the support I got from other large accounts that came to my defense. I felt like I was a pawn in a war of the gods, a mere rat on the platform.

There must be some way to stop the pool draining without doing collateral damage to small accounts that are doing good, honest, work.

It's sad to see how even users who provide real valuable content that is directly affected by the bad behaviours in its valuation follow the narrative of the entitled.

I don't understand that statement. Valuable users ... follow the narrative of the entitled?

Are you able to send me an invite to discord? I am on a new computer and can't access discord from here yet. I'd love to talk more about this.