I stopped voting for witnesses after the chain split when Justin Sun took over. It turns out HIVE made a private rule that if you voted for an account that supported Justin Sun, that your Steem balance wouldn't carry over to HIVE. And this excluded a lot of well-meaning people's stake from carrying over to HIVE. For example, I changed my vote just in time. I had voted for a witness who claimed to be against downvotes, and after some digging, I realized that they were voting for prominent downvoters. That's why I removed my witness from them. But unbeknownst to me, they supported some of Justin Sun's sock puppets towards the end there. So I unvoted them for my reason, but not the "right reason," and had I not done so, my stake would not have carried over to HIVE. All that said, if they are going to punish people based on who they voted for, I will not vote a witness at all. With my low amount of stake, this is less significant than if I were a prominent stakeholder. As far as steemcleaners, spaminator, cheetah, and hivewatchers are concerned: I see that some cases they pursue are legit, but they also have to tighten up against some of the blatant abuse that their accounts carry out.
RE: STOP VOTING FOR HIVE OLIGARCHY - START VOTING FOR FREE-SPEECH