If you visit Tomoyan's website you can see that he is asking for proxy votes in return he is giving 10% more votes or something.
Is this upvu kind of thing going on Blurt? on Steem upvu threatened Witnesses saying if they are a witness on Blurt/Hive then they will not support them.
Fearing this many important witnesses from Blurt left.
Do not give anyone person too much power.
Stay strong and resist vts.