This entire HF21 just feels like Steem inc want a front page with actual quality content like Reddit that regular people who don't need to have a steem account visit on a daily basis so they can get more advertisement revenue.
Downvotes will trigger people like crazy (I noticed it happening to myself also), non-linear reward curve will make it impossible to get anything going for new and regular small-mid-size users. It will be impossible to give a small thank you to readers who took the time to make a comment they put some time in. Most people I know who that are active daily on Steemit also have the 'build your own account' mentality (including myself) which is highly consistent and gives a strong reason to hold SP.
I hope there is still a way to stop this, it feels like literally 100% of users is against what is about to happen with HF21
All good points!
Wait, does the next hard fork include a seperate downvote pool?
yes indeed, you will be able to do free downvotes each day which will make people that get downvoted go totally crazy most likely looking to take revenge. I hope it's possible to just lease it out to groups that watch over the platform and downvote the real abusers.
I agree!
The build your own account mentality (I guess I call it empowering yourself) has been a huge motivator for me to show up every day and work hard and I guess this goes for a lot of ppl indeed.