RE: Hardfork 19 Might Have Been a Step Too Far In the Right Direction
Lots of issues rising due to HF19 I believe. I can't count how many people have come to my posts and commented how much they loved my work yet didn't upvote, or the worst yet the ones that did comment and say I am sorry I can't upvote you because I am out of voting power. I literally have not changed my writing content, still have the same influx of growing followers and commentators but I was doing way better payout wise preHF19 vs what has happened here now a couple weeks later. I also run Steemit Blogger Central and have an army under me in a way, yet averaging from $100 posts to fighting to make $2 a post the last 2 weeks has really making me wonder what is up with Steemit lately.
The effects on me are this, less drive to curate content as often, a bigger push to help others in my project than myself (that being a plus), a huge negative for me though is seeing meme posts make $50 earnings and I sit for hours on top of hours doing research and tighten up my posts for readers...that alone has me questioning HF19. Its going to get a point I think that this voting issue will end up reaching to the top, hit us lower to moderate guys first but there is buddy systems forming with upvoters and in time it could spread out. This concerns me as well...centralization forms that way with groups forming to horde up votes. Personally I did make a good run with Steemit for a guy just banking back post earnings and near 1000 SP in a month but how long should it make sense to scrap $10 a week for the family? Not too much more sense to me personally and why I may cash her out if it doesn't change and move onto trading again. This is something Steemit should be concerned with because that is how everyone I know in here is talking lately. Luckily I am in this for the long term and have a project to keep me active but your points are scary valid on the situation and more so with the lower crowd who keep telling me they are about to call it quits, think we are going backwards here all the sudden
But that is Bullshit., They just are not at 100%, but the are not out of voting power.
i've seen people running out of voting power , new people like me that keeps liking / upvoting things there is no fail save protection on liking / voting people do run dry and leave because they don't understand why .
Ah, see, there is the difference.
They don't run out of voting power (which is afaik impossible), they just run very low and don't understand why.
the system is to complicated for the below average users
@lennstar I actually looked them up on steemnow when they said that, actually they were being honest the 2 that did tell me that, they got down to around 5% so to me that was 0% enough lol. What is going on is people that are new are not aware of the tools out there enough I think, not keeping an eye or grasping how fast that runs down now after HF19. That recovery time is slow to when they drop out so hard on it. Personally though I could care less where my earnings come or go, if it keeps getting bad I will just return to trading coins, buy a little Steem here and there to make up for the downfall going on with my profile lately and hope eventually people wise up on better ways to upvote.
In the end its all about what people choose to do with this, if they want great content then they will upvote what they feel is great content, if they just want to make this about making money alone then I suspect the content creators that do work hard will be hit and miss on truly getting their due values. Personally I am fine with Steemit and HF19 has a few flaws but positive sides too. Its all BETA still so everyone just kind of needs to go along for the ride if they are in this for long term.
No they actually run out! Newbies don't have that feature of setting voting power and if you're new and vote 10 times in like 1-2 hours you're out COMPLETELY!
As a minnow digging for gold I find it difficult to choose who to upvote and who to just pass by. While it is impossible to have zero voting power, what good is my $0.0001 vote to anyone?
There are many more minnows than whales, and this is a good thing, but the minnows should at least have the ability to give a consistent $0.01 upvote when they see something worth the vote.
Before the HF I was DOUBLING my payouts every day! A week after the payout, if I'm extremely fortunate, my posts and thoughtful comments make around $1.
The atmosphere has changed from this
To this ...
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We all just have to hang in there, its all about 2 options, are we in this for the long run or short term. Me I am in this the long run, I may have worded my comment where I seem to be about to quit but I am meaning its the users I talk to lately threatening that, me I mine so when its slow here I just run off and do other stuff, do get a little less active but you have to kind of weigh what is good for your personal gains and not. Right now this went from full time here to more of a hobby at the moment. But i have a project called Steemit Blogger Central and that is my full time gig. Honestly its just a growing pain right now, any HF will do that, few tweaks, little education on the usage from the new people and they will turn it around.