From out of nowhere.  Maybe you're confused because I decided to call your friend smooth out on his hypocrisy.

Your question and nothing to do with the context of this article.  Maybe you should put your question into some context so that I can understand where you're coming from and answer it.

@ats-david
>run to the defense of your preferred users when their content is flagged for the same reason by others.

There are several posts trending.  Smooth was very selective in picking that one.  He was clearly voting in retaliation and the reasons he gave were clearly bogus.  It was not to reduce the rewards - if it were he would have flagged the posts above it with less interaction and views.

Smooth can flag for whatever reasons he likes.  But if he's going to give a reason, he might as well be honest and say "Dan is downvoting my friend so I'm downvoting his friend".

The screenshot @schattenjaeger flagged was smooth admitting that he does not care about reward distribution - hence his reasons given being a lie.
>otherwise, the adjustments should be made on the backend to mitigate "unfairness" of stake-weighted rewards distribution.

I don't think stake weighted votes are "unfair".  Do you?

The screenshot you flagged was smooth admitting that he does not care about reward distribution - hence his reasons given being a lie.

That's the same as what reward re-distribution does through flagging

So do we understand each other better now?  Is your question answered?  If you check @mrwang 's post you'll see that I nominated krnel as a douchebag for his reaction to being flagged.  But in all honesty, smooth was just as childish.

@ats-david
It's quite clear to me that you do not want to make the effort to try to understand me.  I am explaining and you are refusing to hear.  There's nothing I can do about that, I would be wasting my time by entertaining you.
>If you were defending @ozchartart or @masteryoda, I must have missed that.

I did express to both these users that I have nothing against their content, just disagreeing with the value given by the upvotes.  I express that with the downvote.  As expressed already, I did not disapprove of smooths downvote.  Just pointed out his blatant lie.  (He contradicted himself in that comment and that was inconsistent).