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RE: Do we REALLY Need "Yet Another Post About Steemit?" Well, Perhaps We DO...
I sincerely after 1 year here do not believe in the "freedom" speech preached by Steemit. We are being governed by a decentralized government that is a government and like every government there is a central power that commands everything. The success here is for few and I believe that the power model here should be reviewed once again (maybe a new HF), because this HF 19 I would say that "killed the interaction" here in the community. Your post is great and thanks for the opening in wondering what I think.
@jsantana, HF19 yielded some interesting and possibly unexpected outcomes. The fork was subtitled "equality" but from where I am observing it could also have been entitled "selfishness."
Sure, the rewards were distributed a little more, but this also made it more attractive for more people to only "vote for themselves." Whether that is "good" or "bad" it does AFFECT everybody. The sudden growth of "purchased upvotes" is also AFFECTING everyone regardless of whether we call it "good" or "bad."
In a sense, it is a strange twist on "Gresham's Law" (Bad money drives out good money) in that "artificial" upvotes are starting to (to some extent) replace "real" upvotes... reducing the potential vision of Steemit as a "gift economy." My concern (which I voiced) with HF19 was that it would discourage curation because people are selfish. "No, no, no... that won't happen here." Uh-huh....