Thanks, I too mentioned before with the addition of the feed "feature", that would hamstring new users and end the search to expand by following others that you are not exposed to by some other ways... especially when some people here consider links in comments/replies as spam, where is the flow? How do we connect? Where do we get exposure?
Oh the benevolent "money pit" of paying to "promote". The cost to be noticed is too high and requires not buying into Steem Power, limiting investment incentives for the sake of liquidity.
And there is real possibility of loss for content creators as @williambanks mentioned.
I used a formula for 25% votes to upscale my own posts, comments ; 25 % for quality useful , 25% to the follows and 25% for new content . . .
Now with the new changes there is no point in even voting almost ; sorry I cannot upvote your great comment but with one vote per five hours , I cannot risk upvoting and then being unable to vote on some stellar comment in find in 3 hours time . . .
Once I can no longer upvote my feed I am not sure what the use of followers will be since unless I can comment on all my followers posts over time they will simply do some housecleaning and remove me from their feeds.
There must be something I am clearly not understand in these voting changes , so maybe I am missing something ; but if I am you can be sure new people herein will not hang around to work it out if they feel little toward the Steemit platform.
They will leave ! ! !
You comments make sense to me... we will see.