I normally do leave a small comment like: This has nothing to do with the content... and then the link to the Bidbottophant. As I only left a small downvote I was almost just doing as everybody else and leave it at that, but I thought you were entitled to a reason, and as nobody else had left a comment, I did. I actually think the post contains the constructive criticism you ask for. But for the record: it has nothing to do with your gaming platform.

(I found your post here btw: https://steemwhales.com/clean-trending/)

It is true that there is no working promotion feature, and I regret that as much as you.

As for the rest of what you write, your so called wrist slap, I am less than impressed. I have been on Steemit for a while and if you had bothered looking into the blockchain you would see that I have never used resteem services, vote buys, or community groups. I have provided quality content and started out getting 0.01$ for my first many, many posts. You assuming that everybody here has is rather telling.

It is like you coming to my village joining up with the drug selling hoodlums at the corner store, and when I confront you you tell me that that's how things are done in my village. This is the people you buy your upvote drugs from.

So this is not some relativist different folks different strokes kind of thing. This is you participating in destroying my investment of three years of hard, honest work, destroying the platform and enriching people who should not be. It is me rightfully downvoting you.