Yup it did take a few hours for the HF reality to finally sink in but people have already started to adjust their voting sliders, so the rewards aren't as extravagant as in the morning!
I'm more interested in seeing HF 19 as an instrument to recruit more people from other social media sites - especially Facebook and Twitter - and increase our readership on Steemit. The more comments on our articles, the better! ;)
Yes, I suspect the excitement will result in an uptick in Steemit membership. :)
Now that's the kind of excitement I'm looking forward to the most - can't wait!