RE: Although subjectively downvoting posts to zero is anathema to me, the Layer 1 ability to do so must remain (for now at least)

well his posts are original and he seems to be sharing things that he is interested in. Many users don't have a lot of engagement with their posts (which is probably still due to the low number of users on Hive and obviously also due to the content of the post). But you are right; it is not PoB.

To be honest getting 12% from hive.curation isn't really worth it as well, considering that everybody is getting about 10-11% currently.

Alright, I'll stop my delegation :)

On a side note, if you are interested in helping the #lovetheclouds community out a bit , you could upvote the contest every now and then ;) It is getting about 20-30 entries every week and the prize pool has been hovering around 17 Hive.