"A project on the STEEM Blockchain, doesn't like one of my investments, so they have blacklisted me from reaping rewards of their stake. That is part of the beauty of the blockchain."

We are not being actively seeked out to downvote or to take any of our earnings, we are simply not a part of their reward system. Doesn't seem so bad.

I have a personal blacklist of people whose posts I will not reward with my tokens or my stake. I won't even read them. I have different reasons for them, mostly, its people who have written stuff that annoyed me, or were snarky to me in their comments. ITS PETTY on my part, and kind of funny when I somehow see them on my feed and purposely NOT look at their posts no matter how amazing it might be.. Its my choice though, and I can do that.

I can see how this affects @shanibeer in her role, but... the people who are investing with her should understand that this exists on the blockchain.

I don't think we should say this curation tribe is "nonsense" or "butt-hurt" or any of the other comments some of us have been making. They simply don't like our policy. That's ok.

If I find out a real-life person doesn't like me and won't come to any of my parties or give my children any gifts, I am not going to go out of my way to explain to them that I am not awesome. I am simply not their cup of tea.

Now, if that said person doesn't like me because something I said was misinterpreted (like our paragraph about "extracting value") then we have the option to change our verbiage. It might even bring more investors because we explain things more clearly.