If these people were only reducing large rewards, I would be fine with it.
You should know that the posts you seem to talk about that were indeed downvoted close to 0 (which I personally don't agree with either) are posts that were sharing their rewards with a project that engages in self-voting by having indirectly forcing their community members to give them half of the rewards back through beneficiaries in order of receiving their votes: https://peakd.com/@eliorrios/posts, if you look at other accounts posted in said community that aren't sharing 50% of their rewards with them they aren't getting downvoted.
As for the other posts it seems none were downvoted as heavily, just some rewards skimmed off as they were overrewarded for the effort placed onto the content.
I see you are against the project hope community. I know nothing about it but will watch for those posting to it. If they are paying for votes, I will pull my support for them.
One of the biggest problem with Project Hope, is majority of it is either low quality spun content from the internet, or just a pure farming operation. There is little engagement, little interaction within or outside the community, other than saying, "Oh this post of your is good". Most accounts are on powerdown. If you are an investor, you will cringe at the operation. It will literally feel that your hive is being taken from you and sold at the market everyday. There is no care, and if someone tries to engage we get a lecture on poverty.
I have nothing against PH community and I tried several times to have a simple conversation, but typically I don't get anywhere.
Point is if you can get $40, for posting 1 or 2 random pictures, wither yours or from the internet and type 300-400 words of random stuff; why would you care to do a better job? In real life, in many countries, I can get a professional writer for $40/day, which will work 2-4 hours on anything I like them to write. Many people on hive do not do that.
Your response, as well as, Acidyo's seems to be recurring but extremely important. It hints at efforts you guys have made over very a long time. And clears up a lot of questions. Thank you for explaining further.