I'm not completely concerned with the money or the votes. But, something changed after the hard fork. I have never received more than 30 votes for a post no matter what I post unless I used a service to get more votes since the HF. You might say I am not trying hard enough, but I did not change anything and I used to at least get 75-100+ sometimes before the HF. I'm sure things will change again, eventually. It's just an observation that before the HF I would get a lot of votes with little payout sometimes and now I get little votes with little payout all the time. I could post a picture of dirt that took 10 seconds to do or a detailed painting that took hours to create plus spend time making a good quality post about it. Apparently to steemit, they are worth the same if you are measuring by votes.
Again, I don't care so much about this and I'm sure things will change. I'm not going anywhere and steemit has been the cause of many great things for me over the last year. Il just keep posting what I want, when I want whether steemit fixes this problem or not. I'll at least get 1 vote and $0.60 for my post every time until it is fixed, though.
The HF did make people vote less, and definitely vote for strangers less. That does suck for many minnows, but it does trigger improvement for those that persevere. So It is what it is, and we should not see things worse than they actually are. From that place we can create the breakthroughs :)
May I ask for a favour of a resteem. I would really appreciate that :)