As a minnow digging for gold I find it difficult to choose who to upvote and who to just pass by. While it is impossible to have zero voting power, what good is my $0.0001 vote to anyone?
There are many more minnows than whales, and this is a good thing, but the minnows should at least have the ability to give a consistent $0.01 upvote when they see something worth the vote.
Before the HF I was DOUBLING my payouts every day! A week after the payout, if I'm extremely fortunate, my posts and thoughtful comments make around $1.
The atmosphere has changed from this
To this ...
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We all just have to hang in there, its all about 2 options, are we in this for the long run or short term. Me I am in this the long run, I may have worded my comment where I seem to be about to quit but I am meaning its the users I talk to lately threatening that, me I mine so when its slow here I just run off and do other stuff, do get a little less active but you have to kind of weigh what is good for your personal gains and not. Right now this went from full time here to more of a hobby at the moment. But i have a project called Steemit Blogger Central and that is my full time gig. Honestly its just a growing pain right now, any HF will do that, few tweaks, little education on the usage from the new people and they will turn it around.