Dear @proxy.token, I would like to revise my stance on removing the downvote pool and I hereby vote in favour of the same. The reason being that BuildTeam has continued to build on STEEM and maintain its services even though the Steem price is low and we are spending the last of our savings to cover our deficits. One of the revenue streams we still have is our daily posts, 1 per day for example this one https://steemit.com/dlease/@dlease/dlease-to-take-on-defi-unveils-new-microservices-backend unfortunately themarkymark and his project buildawhale have taken it upon themselves to downvote our posts and reducing our already low revenue to keep our services such as dlease, steemvoter, ginabot and tokenbb forums infrastructure running.

It bothered me a little, but this recent downvote was kind of the last straw for me, I have been super motivated recently trying to fix the Steem economy with the @sbdpotato project to restore the SBD peg and the proposal to reduce the powerdown period to 4 weeks.

The Dlease post was written by myself and even set 20% to support the @sbdpotato as a form of self tax on our posts, I was really motivated to improve on and market the dlease.io product as a Decentralised Finance (DeFi) alternative on the Steem blockchain, the platform is professional enough to do so. However I found it so discouraging to have had our post that I linked above downvoted from around $45 to $25, a post where I am trying to position a Steem based app against other fintech DeFi offerings. The downvotes on this post left me feeling demotivated and will look really bad to external readers who may not trust the service seeing downvotes of that size, it left me wondering what kind of future BuildTeam can have on Steem and whether there are more tolerant blockchain communities out there.

I wonder how many people we have lost and how much innovation stifled with the negativity of downvotes over the years.