Makes it even more obvious this isn't all about high rewards, there's much more to it, and notice how the same users who continually go around defending the necessity of downvoting as being 'good for the platform' are the same ones who go around doing the downvoting and getting upvotes from these downvoting whales.
Please refer to my other comment, as it is extremely relevant to what you are saying here. As I said, I knew this was coming a long time ago. Also, let's not forget, these are some of the same people, who created groups to "take down", the so-called previous steemit elite and their corrupt and manipulative stranglehold on the user base there.
It really makes you wonder...