The good news is all these changes are POSITIVE
I'm not sure how you can possibly say that. What's happening now is crazy. Downvoting good content has now become a sport. My rewards have never been lower. I think things have gone from bad to worse... Is it any wonder the price of steem continues to drop? In fact, I have seen the price do nothing but drop since the day I became active here a couple of years ago.
I agree that there are a great deal of problems that need dealing with, and curation rewards really need a good invested stake to be effective. But there is more curation of good content going on, and people are seeing that their own posts will get a positive reward increase. I just hope our great content creators like yourself hold out and give it chance. !COFFEEA 15
I should have mentioned, I quite enjoyed your post. You did a great job of explaining things, and since I wrote my reply I have received some curation from bots, without paying anything for it. I didn't understand what was happening when I first saw that!
Keith, thank you so much I really appreciate the feedback. As you will know well I run my witness along with @derangedvisions and we are growing his @derangedcontests accounts to support amazing photographers just like you. While many things that are happening right now are frustrating, there is much more amazing potential growing - your quality photography certainly qualifies to use both the #creativecoin tag where you will receive rewards in https://www.creativecoin.xyz you will earn curation rewards in the coin just for voting posts using it. And you can also use #photosteem a tribe started by the lovely @swedishdragon who has done amazing things with @heyhaveyamet and is an amazing Steemian. If you stake the rewards on https://www.photostreem.com you will again grow those tokens - who knows how the value of them might grow - but all you have to do is use the tags and stake the rewards - so it is really worth doing.
Yes, I enter those contests and use those tags all the time!
@photostreem , not #photosteem ?.. the tag is #photo
i notice this myself, in various posts, bidbots like rocky and appreciator, come and vote for free.
I also read some posts by acidyo, explaining the deal. so i was already in the know - but still surprised !
Thank you!