Thanks, HF21!
Before the fork, my upvotes were worth over $0.04 USD each:
But when I upvote something (like this comment)...
The payout only goes up by $0.02 USD!
An expected change with this fork was "posts that would make more than 20 STEEM under the old rules will earn more after the changes, and posts that would have made less than 20 STEEM will receive less".
I wonder if that includes comments too, or did they say 'posts' for a reason?
If it includes comments... since my full upvote was only worth 0.11 STEEM, much less than the 20 required, I can expect the comment to "receive less". How much less, the Survival Guide doesn't say. Is it as much as a 50% loss? If so, I guess that explains things, but OUCH, that's a huge loss!
Another expected change with this fork, that might explain it, was: "Reward funding is being changed from a 75/25 split to a 50/50 split between author/curator. That means you will be rewarded significantly more for curating content after the fork."
They chose to leave off the other half: 'You will be rewarded significantly less for creating content after the fork'.
If this is the reason for my vote counting for so little, author awards (content creator payouts) were reduced from 75% of the total to 50% - a 25% change from before the fork.
So why am I not seeing a 25% loss, but a 50% loss? (From nearly 5 cents per upvote pre-fork, to barely 2 cents per upvote post-fork.)
Also, if this issue is permanent, it's going to SERIOUSLY make it tougher for members to get paid out for comments. 2 cents (the cutoff) is an insurmountable obstacle for anyone that isn't buying/trading votes, or doesn't have a massive investment in STEEM. (For example, I've invested 5000 USD and posted 2 years full time, and my upvote is barely able to reach that 2 cent cutoff. Anyone with less money or time invested has no hope.)
Anyone else noticing their upvote value has been reduced by the fork?
Good luck to all! And remember, the good news is: the blockchain still works.
DRutter
My $0.001 (one tenth of a cent) upvote has been halved, and rounded down to $0. So I'm feeling like the grind has been useless. I made it to almost 50 rep, and have curated and created content faithfully for 20 months straight. But my vote is literally still worthless, thanks to HF21.
good news though, everybody...............
.. STEEM price is back up to 18 cents!!
18 cents? That was so yesterday.
Now it's under 16 cents and still falling. :(
We don't feel this is how they advertised things would be. They didn't give the picture that it would be THIS bad. Like from earning cents per week, to earning cents per month. Ouch. Anyone hoping to earn STEEM here for content creation/curation is a sucker. Can't be done anymore.
Ugh, I was already half as interested in Steemit compared to when I started before this new hard fork. But this butt is worth it! LOL
Oh yeah, the butt makes it so totally worth sticking around, right?
Sigh...
You're right, this place has been losing its lustre for a while. Now it's pretty much just a joke. So sad, because it came so close!
sir you have to find a whale with profitable upvote i am offering good upvote
Yep! Crazy to see such a change in just 1 day.
I don't feel like the 'survival guide' was honest about how brutal the changes would be.
This is even worse than expected, which itself was really really bad. Damn.
The problem with steamit is that even though it is a blockchain service it is hosted on a server and nit on the individual device like Satoshi created the blockchain to do.
Might just need time to settle down after the fork.
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