If @notconvinced is right then Hivewatchers downvoting a declined payment really doesn't matter much and it's featuring good content from the past. I see it as like when around the holidays radio talk shows air "best of" broadcasts. Votes on the cross-post are also linked to the original post and some old posts don't have very many as it is.
Or we can take a page from my entry this week and send a tweet to a Dalek to "EXTERMINATE!" the new cross-post policy. :-)