I was 'hiding under the blankets' sick today. I still managed to get on and read some of my favorite bloggers and get some votes in, but haven't done much commenting. In fact I think I told @marxrab that my head was so stuffed full of cotton I couldn't think of anything further to say than congratulations on her anniversary post.
I was talking to some people last night, and everyone seems a bit at a loss how to use their votes now that the power drops super fast. This could end up being a good thing when people get the hang of it, it seems like it would encourage them to go for quality posts. But it does cut into the quantity. I'm also thinking I'm probably not the only one who stopped autovoting and that's going to mean a period of adjustment.
Looking around I noticed a pretty significant drop in rewards on a number of people I generally read, which lends some credence to my deduction. I didn't post today, mostly because I felt shitty and didn't want to ignore people when they commented.
I honestly don't know what can be done about views, I wish I did. You'll always have my view.
When I'm all done here, I should be able to get out there and hopefully still have some voting power left. I'm sure I missed a few today. I know how it is and certainly don't expect every follower to view every post, but you know I've been down and out about views for months. Watching a decrease was hard on me, I'll admit it, no shame.
We had 40 votes before. All people have to do is move the slider to 25% and they can have 40 votes back. Things don't really need to be so drastic. That 25% still gives more, still a good thing.
As for autovotes, I only appreciate them when their used wisely. Those who set up to only vote for the easy curation rewards, then those who followed suit, and the ones after them, and even more ...which brings us to this clusterfuck... I can't respect that. It's so dirty and means only a few get to have some serious fucking fun here.