i wrote something similar few hours before but you did it much better. No one answered how will all this changes affect new accounts and accounts that have less than 5000 or 3000 SP.
How long will new acc stay here when they now earn hardly over the dust vote and by new system they will earn almost 50% less?
As you said i don't see whales and orcas roaming around steem looking for people to vote on whole day.
Also supporting people that follow you will go down the drain for people with less than 5000SP.
half of things they mentioned that they hope will change relies on idea that small people will downvote big accounts that pay for votes and upvote themselves. yap i see myself downvoting bernie just so i can ruin my acc.
Maybe the goal is to get steem to around 1000 people, so we can get a consensus on 100 acc that must create content every day and all of us should vote for them, that if a fair 50:50 deal and that is it. and the price, well we all hope that it will follow bitcoin.
I don't see how will this help new and smaller accounts, and no one explained it. All i heard is well with all this steem will get to the moon and then everyone will be happy.
Every account, no matter how small, is going to profit from the increased curation rewards. If they don't have much SP yet, it's an incentive to power it up. What's so difficult to understand about that?
Also by your standards i am probably a small acc, i am here for 18 months and never powered down and every steem that i got out (when i was new to see how it works) is back in the acc, also half of my steem is invested. Now with the new curve how much will my vote be worth if i go and look for new users that have few to non votes? will i be able to even jump over the dust vote with 100%? will i do that or vote for people that already have a following and i know will get some votes?
Or an incentive to move on too, lets not forget that option as well. Not to difficult to understand.