Where are the curation rewards going?

Is it just me, or are curation rewards down a lot?

One of the great things about steem is it shows us the world as it is.
If you pull a string here, something over there moves, too.

When the maximizer whales were taking nearly all the rewards under the n2, there was no doubt about it.
When a whale votes, everybody else gets less.
Steem is a commons.

In this link you can see that my 30 day curation rewards are ~6x my 7 day rewards.
You can also see that 4x my 7 day rewards won't come close to hitting that 30 day number.

It looks, to me, that the maximizers have struck, again.

carlgnash tried to say that I had some beneficiary rewards that was doing it, but that doesn't explain what I see.
The curation rewards themselves are down, not just the total.

If you can explain this dramatic reduction in rewards, please do so.

Don't kill Batman!

While I got you on the line I want to address rewards that are being voted to people that are dumping.
If you are voting somebody that is not powering up, or holding, you are the sell pressure.

If you are voting on posts that have more than a couple stu, you are cutting your own throat.
If you want the distribution to get down to your level, and you vote on posts that get more than you, you are being counterproductive to your goal.
If you are voting your .003stu to a 30 stu post, stop it.
Give it to somebody that needs it to not round down, or has less than 2stu on their posts, imo.

Please start supporting people that are looking to grow their accounts.
Steem can be at its low, but not if you keep giving it to people that are dumping it.

The people that are selling today really need to be examined as to where their hearts are.

Are they here to help grow the place, or to scavenge?