I was concerned about the hardfork, and was not for it, but once the argument was lost, I thought it was in the best interest of Steem to try it.
- The price hasn't changed... um, it's beeen a week.
- Downvote lists, are absolutely a suggestion not a order. People make curation posts all of the time. I've never seen anyone get upset about that.. How is it different?
- I am still concerned about smaller accounts being able to earn
- The trending page, yeah, I was worried about that too.
- The bidbots are seeing very little action check it yourself on steembottracker.com
I've seen more than one small account saying they are getting curated more and I hope it lasts.
I'm not saying it is a smashing success what I am saying is usage and traffic have remained steady so far, the price has remained steady... I'm missing where this is a big problem besides what people fear.
Nor am I saying it's a smashing success, it's too soon.
Personally I am not worried, my posts never have attracted much so even though I am making much less per post what I lose is pennies so it really is nothing. But when you add thousands of users making less and less, example for my posts I always use busy.org once a day, before the hard fork after the busy vote I had $0.30 now I have $0.12 that is 60% less, now just think of the majority of users being hit this way some of them actually depending on Steemit for some of their income and those guys are going to get worried (OK so they shouldn't depend on Steemit but the fact is they do) and some of them if not most will leave. That is worrying, but most of the bigger guys are focusing on downvoting, and the best they can manage to use as a reason is that it brings back rewards to the reward pool. If this is so, how come my rewards are down so much?
Like I said in the article I have the perception that there are less posts and the quality is lower, so I do think this hard fork is hitting Steemit negatively.
Time will tell. I am also concerned with the smaller users and trying to keep an eye out for those who are actually trying to create reasonable content
The bidbots are totally filled with complete shit, that been my downvote focus.