Thanks for the notice @glenalbrethsen. Oh, life doesn't seem to be slowing down any. I was away on vacation for a couple weeks and just now catching up. Still behind for the most part and I suspect I will always be so. I'm glad to read your wife is doing better. :)
I support the idea behind RC consumption and user behavior. I know engagement is encouraged but it is meaningful commenting that should be encouraged more so than daily conversing. I too am guilty for leaving my share of spammy comments here and there, ask @headchange, but that might be my one or two comments for that day. I probably had my share of daily conversing in my earlier redfish days and hope that I am not being hypocritical of it now. Perhaps my perception changed as I learned more about this platform. It would be interesting to see the results on the league going forward, for sure. Perhaps nothing will change afterall? :)
I believe things will change just a little. I rarely make the top 10 to 20 but when I do it means there has been a lot of chatting going on.
Asher is not the only one who makes contest based on building up comments. Actually just look at the NewbiePalooza as one example.
Also now that I think about it look what happened as an example of why this may be necessary.
I am pretty sure I won't have a lot of issues. But do think this will have impact on the Engagment leagues
Glad I found the post. Good to have the heads up.
Yes, I remember that type of engagement level from my heydays and making it to the top. Those days are long gone and now I just check the bottom of the list to see if I made it on or not. ;)
Lol on the newbiepalooza. Yes, that one was to get more user engagement but it was also a contest. People commenting there do so for a chance to win prizes. It is different than daily conversing, imo. I did a lot of that myself in the early days, but I've become friends with many of them and those type of conversations are now on discord. Can't say that is good or bad, but we are definitely not using RCs!
There is also the UA score that seems to factor in the comments on our posts. People may be much more conservative with those going forward.
Guess it will be grab a rope and hang on see where we end up.
Maybe it won't be much worse than bandwidth, which surprisingly was never much of a problem for me. Although I would often hear others speak of it.
I know you are right though Discord would save a lot on the blockchain resource end.
UA score is not used on any site front end, has quite a few flaws in it's basic concept and logic and is hardly anything to bother paying attention to.
Who has more UA, me, with my 64 rep and 66 witness? Or bernie when he had a -19 rep and no witness. Duh, of COURSE, berniesanders had more influence but id have the higher ua score.
UA is an impossible thing to metric, don't let anybody try to kid you and try to sell you on giving them a delegation for it, for sure.
Well, there's no way of knowing until it happens, apparently, so it could be nothing happens, or people's ability to do things improves. I feel like I'm being warned, though. Beware. At any rate, I could have asked how much we need to put in if we want to do more but I figured I'd save that for later when we might know what's happening and have some better answers. I'm feeling like all the leaguers could be affected, which saddens me. If it ends up being that low SP, who has been using the platform the most because they want to earn SP since they didn't have it to begin with and don't have the resources to invest end up being reduced or shut out, while those with the highest SP who aren't using the platform other than to delegate end up with the all the RCs—it just seems to me that there will be a lot more unhappy people, as indiscriminate, impartial, or fair as that may be.
As it is, I'm less worried about myself (though I'm wondering just how low this goes), because I have invested some. It's not tens of thousands, but it's more than a few hundred bucks. I'm not sure how anyone could be expected to put in more just to use the STEEM social media platform.
So, there, I've said it, and now we get to see what happens next, and hopefully, the warning I was feeling I was getting will all be in my head. :)
Looks like we got our answer! So many small fishes now having to check RCs before commenting/upvoting. I'm just going to wait and see what happens once equilibrium is achieved.
Other than the blockchain going down (oh wait, it's done that twice already), I'm not sure how it could get any worse at this point, @beeyou. I'm sorry for everyone who can no longer function much at all, let alone at the level they were accustomed to. Probably not much more to do than kick back and wait. Hopefully it doesn't take that long. I'm afraid, though, just like my foreboding before, that it's not going to shake out that much different than it already is, and if so, as @davemccoy points out in his post, the rest of the people who have been hanging on either leave or Steemit Inc. comes up with a fix.
@davemccoy says I'm enjoying this reprieve from engagement, lol. I'm doing the same amount of commenting which doesn't amount to much these days.
As like you though, I do sympathize for others that actively engage and cannot do so anymore. According to steemitblog's latest post, they will implement a patch to increase the RC by 10x so users might find themselves back to where they were.
My vote might not make it pass the dust threshold, so I will wait until VP is up before looping around to a post of yours. I told Dave the same thing. :)
No worries. During this period of time, no one has a lot of voting power, anyway. Almost didn't put out tonight's post for that reason, but since I was playing with numbers anyway, I figured I might as well.
I just read the latest steemitblog post. It should help for now, but I can't see it being a long term solution. Might as well keep bandwidth, which they certainly don't want. At any rate, I'm happy they're on it. It sounded like they were pretty worried about the exchanges. :)
Ahh, the gentlebot stopped by to show its kind support to you. Finally something right on here! :)
I would write a post, but nothing to write about, so works out I guess. I average 1-2 posts a week so it's not out of the norm either. For now, we get to enjoy the material that you and others provide for our reading pleasure. :)
A patch is exactly that..patch job. I'm not a coder but had projects go live that failed due to 'unforeseen circumstances'. The scrambling around after a failed go live result in others losing faith in the project leader. Oops, anothers yikes for Steemit Inc. Yes, sounds like business and exchanges are foremost on their mind.
I'm convinced that there's just two different realities, the one the devs occupy where they do a ton of work that no one ever sees or will appreciate because we're essentially ignorant to it—a lot like what happens with creative work, or business behind the scenes—and our world, where we have just grown accustomed to things working, and complaining when they don't because we lack the knowledge to do it ourselves.
We're both oblivious, for the most part, to what the other one wants or needs, and yet we're supposed to coexist and get along, and find a way through?!
And on that note...
How can something, as they repeatedly have said now, unforeseen if they've literally foreseen that something unforeseen is going to happen? Also, how can it be unforeseen if parts of it, which they're now calling bugs, actually does what they intentionally wanted it to do, but to ill effect?
I worked with devs too as a liaison between them and a state welfare agency getting a new computer system. They wanted to give us clean, wonderful code that never broke, but ultimately gave us nothing that we needed it to do, and we apparently wanted the entire universe when essentially we were asking for something basic, with little downtime, and the ability to right log entries and maybe keep track of documents and welfare payment amounts.
I really think they need someone at Steemit Inc who's not been staring starry eyed at C++ who speaks "normal folks" and might even know what it feels like to be the end user. Maybe. :)