Hey there @goldmatters! @ocdb is giving New Steem and manual curation a chance, which is why you have received a big vote from us :) I hope the vote helps catching your attention and you get to read this comment.

I am personally not familiar with your blog, well I wasn't until today that I spent a while reading your posts. You have some great giveaways and contests going on, it really seems like you put some time into them and you have some great engagement in them.

The reason I'm writing you is to link you to a post (I hope it's ok I do some self promotion) where I talk about changing the voting mentality and give New Steem a chance by spreading our voting power to other users, perhaps even focusing on minnows if that's what you want. I think that rewarding the winners of your posts with votes is already spreading a bit of your Voting Power, but still I hope that you give the post a read and it appeals to your OG status and maybe you consider giving it a try :)

Here is the post I'm talking about. I hope to get some feedback from you. Have a great day!

Open letter - a Plea to give New Steem a chance