I see many different opinions about this experiment and about hard forks, so I wish to share my thoughts with my followers.

Many of you got disappointed with reducing rewards. But also I see many people who understand what happened. Or at least they wish to understand it so they support it because they believe in Steemit. I think I am somewhere in the middle. I don't like the fact that they first gave us opportunity to express our upvotes with some cents and it was really fun. Then, they just took it away. It's like when you give a new toy to a child, then you take it back...

Before these hard forks 17 and 18 my goal was to reach 10000 of Steem Power.

And I came so close to that goal. Now I am on 9300 and who knows how long will I stay on that number. I planned to write a crazy milestone post with photos of me, so drunk and high like never before. I was so happy about me reaching 10000 Steem Power and I would celebrate that day better than my birthday.

I know that rewards are growing up, slowly and secure.

But in minds of many users is that whales left us, rewards are much reduced.

Among my followers there are many of them who haven't posted for days. Before this hard fork they posted each day, one or two posts. On the other side there are some users who posted a lot before, but now they started to post 10 - 20 posts in a day, so I had to unfollow some of them. I always try to present Steemit to other people, many users are here because of my actions. But now, I can't explain Steemit to anyone the right way because even trending page looks miserable. It's like the feeling when you look the old Steemit from the distance. Like this flower bud, it's just a nipple on the tit of this plant.

I woke up yesterday morning with thoughts about my never reached 10000 of Steem Power.

But I am still on 9300 and the day of my milestone is not getting close. I believe in STEEM as a currency and I believe that it's price will grow. So I decided to power down for a week or two! Then I would stop it! And I pressed the button! I decided to use that Steem to try make some profitable trades and return it to my Steem Power. I had some plan in my head, I wanted 10000 Steem Power so badly that I pressed power down!

And I couldn't sleep well last night. I also talked to some people who actually powered down for few weeks and they all said to me that it was a painful experience. Well, we all worked hard for our numbers. So, I canceled powering down and I already feel much better. If I decided to be a believer, I will be a believer until the end. When you look closely, you can get much better picture. Those whales know how the things work much better than I. And some of them will eventually help me to reach my 10000. Now look closely to this flower bud. There is a life in there!

There is one thing that I can't agree with. Few days ago, @steemitblog posted this:

One of those changes is to use a 30 day moving average to determine how much Steem should be distributed daily in order to make the rewards more stable and enable users to more reliably predict the amount of rewards they can earn on a day-to-day basis.

Personally, I don't like when you can predict the reward you will get.

If you know that you will get 10$, then you will not put any efforts in your post. I like when things are unpredictable, I like the competition and when users really try to deserve their rewards. I am really disappointed about how users (and whales) don't read the posts, they just upvote, much of them don't even open the posts. Do you know what is the index of disappointment? It's the difference between the number of upvotes and the number of views. I know that bots are literally suffocating this network, but there are also many real users who never even open the posts, just upvote them on the list page. That's why I would remove that button on the list page, and if you want to upvote something, you would have to open the post, scroll it down and upvote!

Thank you!