So you want to leave because you can no longer milk the rewards like you used to under a broken economic model?
I downvoted this post not because it was a bad post or because I have any ill will towards you. I downvoted it only because we can't let people buy enough votes to put their posts into Trending and also profit from it. There has to be a negative ROI to buying votes to reach Trending because Trending is the most valuable real estate on front ends such as Steemit.
I try to downvote everything in Trending that didn't get there on organic votes only. Not just you. Nothing personal. Welcome back.
So you're saying that if you were a new user you'd like to see the spammy looking posts currently on trending over my or others photography or original art? What do you exactly want to spend that "real estate" on?
It's up to the community to decide how valuable each piece of content is. You used bid bots to grab about $107 from the reward pool (which is finite) to the bid bot delegators and owners + about $5 to yourself. It's fine as long as you decline rewards or burn (have @null as the beneficiary) enough of the rewards to get negative ROI or alternatively accept gracefully that your post will be downvoted with enough stake to send it into negative ROI territory.
Your single picture post was an ok post but I've seen much better material take a fraction of $107 from the pool. I also downvote those posts whose author bought votes that are in fact paid promotion. We can't have that get to trending with positive ROI, either.
Also, no I don't want to leave because I can 'no longer milk the rewards". That feeling is coming from the fact that I was gone for two months due to some big life changes, continent, job, etc... Then I come back on here and make a post, promote it and immediately start getting down voted. This was super strange so I started looking into it and realized things had changed. At that point I edited my post and begin figuring things out here on the comments that things had changed. Yet even though I realize I made a mistake and know that things are different know people are still intent on "punishing" me for making a simple mistake. I mean if it's such a big deal why didn't you all down vote me for the past 6 months?
We didn't downvote you because prior to HF21 nobody had the 2.5 daily 100% downvotes. The economic model was fixed in HF21. Downvoting is not a punishment. In this case, it's all about reorganizing content appearing in Trending. It has to work without exceptions. Otherwise anyone can claim to be entitled to an exception.
Why not go downvote everything in the Trending section right now then? It looks super spammy and not at all attractive to new users? Is it in trending through organic voting? What determines good content, because it looks every bit as bad as it always has.
I don't have enough downvoting power to downvote everything currently in Trending. I've been talking about the benefits of everyone trying to find the best posts by various types of artists here and organically upvoting them into Trending. I actually agree with you on too much Steem-centric content being in Trending. At this time, however, I'm prioritizing content promoted using bid bots in my downvoting.
gotcha, thanks.
I actually just followed you and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your content here. I'm an amateur photographer and I appreciate good photography. Whenever I spot something I like very much, I'll give it a relatively large upvote and resteem it.
Cool! My next thing is going to be using vintage Pentax K mount lenses on my new Fuijifilm X-T30. Kinda excited about it.