That discussion on discord was not about the IOST account, that's why I wanted to correct that information. I noticed this account later and when it seemed to mainly copy posts from other platforms (which usually steemcleaner would detect and downvote but maybe it had trouble doing so because of the language) and on top of that they were being voted on late which seems weird considering you want to promote the partnership and get it as much views as possible it seemed like reward farming.

If you could show some proof of the partnership, the original writer on the facebook/IOST blog post acknowledging that you have the right to cross-post them here then there would be no problem (even though others may still disagree with the rewards) but it wouldn't seem like theft in that case.

The original Discord discussions were about the low amount of accounts you (happybelly - the account that delegated to it) was voting for and we were at the same time trying to break off the low circle of users @sweetssj was voting on as well, so these two are not connected.

As for retaliation, it says way more about you than it does about us. People can conclude our curation and methods compared to yours and then our downvoting and reasoning. It's not hard to check on these statistics to make a decision on who's doing what's best for Steem and who is not.