An advertisement should be shown as such. Even Facebook displays when a content is promotional or been paid to display somewhere...
As long as your ad (your content) isn't marked in Steem as an ad, I will keep downvoting no matter how much quality or effort you put into it.
Currently there is no blockchain-level indicator on votes for whether they're paid (i.e. advertisements) or not. Certain bots, such as @postpromotor, do however leave comments making their usage is more transparent. I would support a "paid vote" field on vote transactions in the blockchain.
However, given that the protocol doesn't have this feature yet, it's up to frontends to decide whether to filter paid votes. The Clean Trending utility shows that it's not hard to detect paid votes at this point in time. My fear is that your downvoting operation will push vote purchasing to use more stealth methods, potentially transacting in other currencies than STEEM or SBD. This will make it much more difficult for frontends to filter paid content.
In other words, why punish producers of high quality content who decide to advertise just because the primary frontend (steemit.com) uses a trending view that doesn't filter paid votes. I feel like an ad-free trending view would solve the problem best. And in the long term, the community should consider a protocol level flag for paid votes.
Two suggestions for https://steemwhales.com/clean-trending/ that would make it less prone to downvoting high-quality content are:
regarding 1. you can simply click on trending. That's the problem about it.
Maybe you should look up what an advertisement is.
Hint: it sells you a product.
What was dhimmel selling you?
You might want to learn to distinguish the difference between promotion and advertising.
This is really about a monopoly (Steemit whales) kicking out the little guys like any other big corporation, they are protecting their interests. How else do you think this self appointed gestapo account manages to get $200-$700 for his crappy posts? It's a whale club, they vote among themselves and won't let the small fish play. The only thing you can do is power down and let these scammers fall on their own weight. I can't wait to see the prosecutions!