Alienate? How and by whose authority?
I see talk about consensus, but absolutely see none of that, when self-appointed big stake holders "speak" for the community.
Consensus on Hive is in the order of when we vote changes to code / blockchain. The community truly gets to say.
I too have also in the past fallen afoul of big stake holders moralizing. @gric may earn more for his posts, but he is by no means raping the rewards pool. There are others on this platform that earn far more than what he does.
This downvoting of his content punishes not only him but also those that chose to vote for his content. It is their voting power and they are free to give it where they wish.
And before you say anything about automatic votes, bots or whatever, that is not the case here.
If big stake holders think that other content is more deserving, then by all means use that voting power to reward content they they think deserves it rather than burning the votes of smaller stake holders with down votes.
I vote for @gric's content because I like it. So what if there is a bit of recycling of content, he publishes way more original content on this platform. Hive needs content creators like him. But if this petty minded authoritarianism persists on Hive, it is going to die a slow death as original content creators give up and leave.
We came here for a censorship free network, and yet people seem to want to enforce that very thing here.
So what if some don't agree with it and downvote it.
You've (intentionally?) left out some import points I made, large stake holders can wipe out small. Having more stake does not make one more moral or righteous but more capable of abuse.
Some how I get the feeling that if you were on the receiving end, your attitude would be somewhat different.