It's basically the same as any other auto voting service now. That's why it's useless. They keep talking about all this "positive feedback" they're getting, but it's bullshit. No one wanted another shitty auto voting/posting platform. Smartsteem used to be a way for us smaller shareholders to make a little bit of extra steem off of selling our votes so we don't reach 100% vote power. They completely fucked the whole thing and it's become a useless piece of shit. I can't even begin to fathom why they thought this dumbass move was a smart thing to do... but who knows. What they should've done was just adjusted the price for votes and maybe we would have earned a little less off of our votes, but we would have received larger curation now under new steem. They changed the service completely, to something that NO ONE AT ALL (Despite what the stupid fucks will claim on their posts...) asked for in the first place. Steemauto and Steemvoter and shit like that are sufficient and there was simply NO demand at all for another service like it, but these dipshits chose to take that path regardless. They've lost a majority of their userbase and it'll only dwindle further in time as people just stop using it because it's not any different than any other automated service. They not only hurt their bottom line, but they also cost their users a lot. We used to be able to make use of extra voting power and get a little bit with a fee taken out, for them hosting the service. Now? We have another useless site that contributes nothing original or unique to steem in any way. Fucking sad to see, tbh.