I apologize for butting in, but I hope to improve the resolution of your discussion. My understanding from reading Hurt's posts and comments is that he has a cutoff for downvoting posts at a KE of 10. So, if your KE was 10 or below, he wouldn't downvote you if I read and remember correctly.
I understand that holding off for a while on spending your earnings on Hive might be very difficult. But there are people you know that don't have Hive earnings, so such difficulty cannot be unknown to you. I know, and you are observing, that Hurt is a very reasonable person who is prone to compromise for the sake of comity. I bet that if you propose to lower your KE to 10 or below, and ask Hurt to help you achieve that KE by not flagging away rewards while you're building them up, he will at least hear you out.
Rather than discussing whether it's right or wrong to DV you, or for you to eat occasionally, I think if you guys try to help each other, him to help you lower your KE by not DV'ing you while you're HODLing your stake, and you to help him strengthen Hive by lowering your KE to 10 or below, that you could come to agreement and end the flags from him on your account.
I recommend trying. I argue with him all the time and he doesn't get mad at me unless I insult or malign him, which I don't want to do anyway when I'm trying to persuade somebody to a different course of action than they have set on. I hope ya'll can work it out.
Thank you. Now, I could make my ke lower than 10. I powered up my pervious month hive earnings.
Please note that I cannot speak for Hurt, and cannot predict what he will or will not DV, nor what he thinks of anything. He recently informed me I had lost much of his goodwill for me, for reasons I do not understand, but seem to be related to my efforts to help another user reform their stake management to no longer trigger his DV's.
I have found him to be both reasonable and courteous, even magnanimous, in discussions, but I cannot say I well understand his motivations or understanding, and this means my recommendations may be entirely opposite of his interests and could produce completely contradictory results. I can only speak to my understanding of what I have read, while he, and he alone, speaks for himself. I cannot strongly enough recommend talking to him yourself, and considering what I say no more than a recommendation to do that, rather than the basis of a plan.
I hope only to help, but my actual ability to help is very limited, and I think the best thing I can do to help is recommend you understand what he wants and expects, which you can only get from he himself.