There are many stakeholders who are happy to support users and communities that are persistent and hoping to grow on Steem. I appreciate the effort of putting into words your current experience with the recent hard fork.
I just want to add that the intentions of the changes is to bring more votes back to normal users who post good content, rather than having so much stuck in bidbots and automated voting. The free downvotes also allow more rewards to be returned to the normal users from previous abusers that would just milk the system. It may take some time for the changes to give results, but I would give it some time. For sure it is not meant to simply enrich large stakeholders more, that was the previous model that allowed unchallenged self-voting and bidbots.
If what you are saying is true then we wouldn't see so many accounts that have tripled in rewards while the lower tier accounts went down triple in rewards. If what happened with their rewards tripling overnight was suppose to happen after some time for changes to give results it would be believable if such a time period existed for everyone.
Yeah, it sure feels like the little accounts got forked, not even any vaseline... lol!
that's exaggeration at minimum.
I've actually been surprised at how little the rewards have moved so far but we'll know better when the payouts come. The rewards no longer being linear means they can move a lot during the week between them being posted and paying out depending on how many votes and who curates them.
Read @rycharde's posts explaining how it works now, he's done a pretty tech free explanation
I appreciate that input. There is rich irony in that what the fork has actually elicited from me is the exact opposite. I am undelegating everything I had out to try to get my upvote to .02 and putting everything on autovote behind whales, as upvoting the stuff that actually interests me offers very little benefit to the poster and even less to me.
I will be very curious to see of the downvotes really stem abuse. I do not see how that will work, but I am glad something was attempted, at least.