You might have a point about scarcity and the price of Steem going up, but from my point of view it shifts the balance towards the large accounts, yet again.
How many of the minnows are writing quality posts? How many of them are actually curating? How many of them are really engaging in conversations?
Excuse me for asking, but do you ever look down? I mean, do you ever bother to go out and mingle with redfish and minnows? Have you ever heard of @abh12345's Engagement and Curation leagues?
I agree there is a lot of crap being posted, but the questions you ask yourself there, are a slap in the face of all those smaller accounts that actually do write quality post, curate manually and write tens of thousands characters a week, simply engaging.
I see some whales, orcas and dolphins posting content that is absolutely not up to standard too. Part of them engages and curates within very small circles.But hey, why would we mind, because they have invested.
I always asumed that the HF would make the chance to grow a little easier for a redfish or minnow with potential but no fiat to invest, but it looks more like a wipe out to me.
What happened to fair chances??
I don't think you were harsh enough... In fact I would say you were restrained. The bottom line is that the population of people using the platform is shrinking and its been shrinking for a good reason. You and I know that reason, I will bet you that many that think charging people to make comments and vote for witnesses don't know that reason. You can only explain it so many times until you realize that those people don't listen.
I'm proud of you and what you have done here @simplymike. And I know for a fact that you know more than any of these people that make these stupid statements (and implement such things as a "freedom to speak" tax.
I have a feeling i'll be delegating out to small and keen accounts again soon.
The latest @steemitblog talks about boosting everyone's RCs by 10x - this will help, but is it enough?
So a new account can make20 comments a day - if he does nothing else? Give me a break hahaha.
The top has yet again made changes that are beneficial for tbe top. Reading thhe post above, it's obvioushow they think about smaller accounts, and want to make this an elite-thing only.
I'm so frustrated the've put a limit to engagement. How else can you grow and build your netwerk?
I'm all for going back like it was. I see a lot of people that intend to leave if the RC system stays in place...
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20 good comments a day will take hours. I'd rather see that than a meaningless (to others) conversation that could be held on the phone or in discord.
Perhaps they will change the parameters again, and perhaps we'll need posts like 'Are you a redfish struggling to breath?' and need to delegate to the 'good' ones. We can build a less spammy, better community this way.
Don't throw the towel in yet :)
It won't be 20 comments a day.
It will be 20 comments every 5 days (it's currently 2 comments every 5 days).
Out of all those comments, maybe 2 will get upvoted with a 2 cent vote - so they're looking at making 4 cents every five days if they're lucky.
I wouldn't be surprised if people moved onto other platforms - Golos, Trybe, Whaleshares and so on.
20 comments in 5 days. C'mon, they can't leave it like that. That's plain suicide for the platform. I know I would run and go join one of the competigors, for sure...
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I'm glad you will be there helping and I love that you do that... If everyone were like you, you wouldn't have to be so kind!