Yes, you are right. Times were dire and my community turned on me at a certain point when the price fell dramatically, ned started selling off steem hard and the little upvote support @dynamicrypto and I were providing to others compiled with the computers and cell phones we were funding or even direct payments to people who were single mothers busting their ass off on steem became unappreciated or not enough to keep people around. Honestly, I was burnt out so bad and was about to be homeless from losing my 18 year career for diversity hires and then my children as a result. This destroyed my health. I am just now feeling physically 100%. I do apologize for not being around for that movement.

But I am here now and trying to find healthy solutions to seemingly temporary problems if we can all come together and further protect our Blockchain through democratic principles like updating our Whitepaper through consensus to better solidify consensus with DPoS with clearer language in regards to downvoting.

Shouldnt the Witnesses and proposals be subjected to the same kind of downvoting for consensus stake voting as the everyday low stake user is subjected to?

I understand your point about retaliation but it is exactly what is happening to small staked users.

I am just saying apply downvotes evenly and fairly in the DPoS staked voting consensus for Hive by having it apply to all three forms of staked consensus voting or eliminate the downvote function to better encourage The very important large stake holders and equally important low stake users to get along in a healthy manner. Surly any small stake user has the possibility to invest more and can be whale if encouraged by seeing a equal and fair application of Consensus downvoting or elimination of downvoting as it unfairly applies to only one of the three Staked voting mechanisms leaving DPoS not as strong of a protocol if it is applied unfairly.