Awesome to hear from you on this subject @bashadow! As always I like to hear your thoughts. I also like it because you always have a more experienced perspective than me, and you (unlike others in the older classes) aren't afraid to tell it like it is! I completely agree with you that much has been wasted over the last few years on dust votes from the newbies and minnows that didn't know any better...
And I hope you are right about the "old guard" getting changed. That is some straight up ridiculousness they are trying to sell us with that solution. If they want to take away the author rewards, then whey not just give it to the curators of that post? Wouldn't that make a helluva lot more sense?
Some minnow but mostly Dolphin accounts are getting the notice, people are paying attention to the people that are actually trying to help them. The whales are not getting any notice. The rich have always been afraid of the middle class, thus the stranglehold many countries have put on the middle class, steemit is no different in that. Take a good look at what dolphins/orca accounts are being harassed by botnets, opt in this opt out that, oh you buy votes, oh you don't buy votes. I saw what happened a couple days after the @steemcommunity post from paulg, I read that post, I looked at the list, I gave my feedback on that list. Then I saw that something happened, knee jerk reactions on the part of several people. large behind the scenes mostly people. All because she was doing her job, enough said on that it is on the post in question.
the problems @deliberator is having with so called transparency, which is a laugh, You read TC's post, there is a war going on, a war of "look at me I am still relevant" see jerry banfields laughing stock post and whinny my butt is hurt post. it is not just him trying to remain relevant, but others also.
The crash to steemit is coming, but I think they think they are going to win, I do not think so. The Orca's, Dolphin's, Minnow's and redfish, know we outnumber them a thousand to one.
@bashadow I hope you are right and you know I have valued your opinions for a long time! Thank you for taking the time to give me a headsup and a good analysis of how you see things working!