It's not that no one had my back, they just decided to use like 50m sp to downvote with since everything was so concentrated on a few accounts as they liked to just proxy everything, which in hindsight meant they missed out on a ton of Hive cause they were voting for Suns sockpuppet witnesses attempting to leverage a deal between real witnesses and him. I didn't care too much about the downvotes, what was annoying was that they also went after ocd curators' rewards who put in a lot of time and effort into their work which they still do. Thankfully we're a lot better off now and people don't go as crazy in retaliation as they did back then but at the same time we still got a long way to go to normalize downvotes for disagreement of rewards and authors to also attempt to not try and maximize everything always and think with a more community-wide mindset.