I have come to appreciate your posts over the last few days. I personally joined SteemIt a few days ago in order to share the work I have created over the years (photography, art, sculptures, etc) on a platform that has done a good job maintaining a community feel to it. It took me a while to finally join after watching the site the last few months. I never felt any other social media sites were a good fit for me and never joined any of them - none of them.
Getting rewarded for sharing that content with others interested in it is great, but I have seen too many pages/post clogging up the new feed with random stuff copy/pasted from around the internet with little to no "content value" at all. It's like pulling over the mentality of tumbler, knowing people will vote up anything and make them some quick money. But I don't give them my time. Hopefully they won't have a long term impact on the positive goals and image here,
I am hoping the changes will encourage people to be more discerning with their votes-- use 100% votes only for the BEST content, 20-50% voting power for the more average, and so on. I know I will be trying to stretch my voting power a little further than the default setting which only allows for 10 100% votes per day before our voting power decays.
True, and that should help keep the best content authors rewarded as they should be. Thank you for taking the time to reply to me and the other people who replied. I learn a lot from the back/forth chats.