I'm not happy with it either, but the good news is I am so disgusted that my money is worth less than it was (my upvote value has essentially been HALVED by the curve if I continue to support the small accounts I had come to love), I spend far less time on steem. The witnesses have spoken, our prospects grow dim - I posted a poem about it. As expected, my post is not making much. I'm surprised it only got one downvote though, given all the "wait and see" "the witnesses know what they are doing, trust them" and "you still have the community's support" I get whenever I beef. I am not here for the money, my posts rarely make more than a dollar, but that I make even less now because some "curator" is making more is sticking in my craw.
See right there, my upvote should have been .15 and it registered as .07! What is this witchery?! I feel like I am in a ghetto where my money buys far less in a bodega here than it would in a corner store on the upper west side. I lose in both my posts AND my curation rewards. Bunch of hooey.
My RC goes down just as quickly as it did before the fork in our backs, so where does that .08 go? I would OK with the payout being cut by a third if my curation "rewards" (the vocabulary is designed to deceive) had truly doubled but, since the value of my upvote has been more than halved, I get nothing more from curating unless I engage in what is essentially gambling on posts that I do not particularly care for. My behavior has had to change dramatically, and not one bit for the better. I look for posts that are going to pay, not posts of quality. Then I continue to give nearly worthless 100% upvotes to my homies in the ghetto. We get the privilege of banding together like we're at war, armed with worthless tokens. Am I going to be downvoted for talking like this? So I also get to fear retribution. Thank you for demanding that the fork be withdrawn. It's a very bad move for the likes of me, and it is nothing new that rulers don't care about the well beings of the likes of me.
I fully agree with you, HF21/22 is killing us (Planktons and Minnows)
Thanks, man. God bless!
I'm not happy with it either, but the good news is I am so disgusted that my money is worth less than it was (my upvote value has essentially been HALVED by the curve if I continue to support the small accounts I had come to love), I spend far less time on steem. The witnesses have spoken, our prospects grow dim - I posted a poem about it. As expected, my post is not making much. I'm surprised it only got one downvote though, given all the "wait and see" "the witnesses know what they are doing, trust them" and "you still have the community's support" I get whenever I beef. I am not here for the money, my posts rarely make more than a dollar, but that I make even less now because some "curator" is making more is sticking in my craw.
See right there, my upvote should have been .15 and it registered as .07! What is this witchery?! I feel like I am in a ghetto where my money buys far less in a bodega here than it would in a corner store on the upper west side. I lose in both my posts AND my curation rewards. Bunch of hooey.
LOL...the other .08 went directly the "Whale's Collective" account...lol...
My RC goes down just as quickly as it did before the fork in our backs, so where does that .08 go? I would OK with the payout being cut by a third if my curation "rewards" (the vocabulary is designed to deceive) had truly doubled but, since the value of my upvote has been more than halved, I get nothing more from curating unless I engage in what is essentially gambling on posts that I do not particularly care for. My behavior has had to change dramatically, and not one bit for the better. I look for posts that are going to pay, not posts of quality. Then I continue to give nearly worthless 100% upvotes to my homies in the ghetto. We get the privilege of banding together like we're at war, armed with worthless tokens. Am I going to be downvoted for talking like this? So I also get to fear retribution. Thank you for demanding that the fork be withdrawn. It's a very bad move for the likes of me, and it is nothing new that rulers don't care about the well beings of the likes of me.
Indeed. I have only ever seen the whales here act in THEIR OWN BEST INTERESTS, no matter the effect on the platform as a whole.
Outstanding commentary, my friend. I couldn't agree more!