Hey there, with the last hardfork there has been a big push to downvote those buying votes - hoping that organic curation would then have a chance at actually showing what the community supports. Unfortunately that means even those who perhaps are using it for promotion (and not a quick profit) are seeing downvotes. Essentially for promotional purposes many are asking individuals to “burn” some of the reward (set null as a partial beneficiary). This way the person promoting is actually spending money for the attention and burning some of the profit etc.

Sorry there was no explanation with those downvotes you received, I thought ocdb was leaving comments.