RE: HardFork 21 | Curation Update
Yes @costanza ...
"I still think there is a long way to go in order to make steem work though and I'm far from sure that we will ever get there."
... and you are not afraid to make this statement. This is a part of why I appreciate what you are doing and happily support it.
"One thing is for sure, people are bound to do what is most profitable for them."
Yep, the ancient WIIFM principle has been around since the beginning of time and the utopian vision of what a decentralized blockchain might be able to accomplish will never be free of it IMHO. And I agree with your impressions these latest changes have some benefit to them. But ... In so doing, made the slope of that "steep mountain" we all must learn to climb even greater ...
One sad development from my perspective (back to WIIFM ...) is the significant reduction of any upvoting on comments written. The best ROI for our SP under these new rules doesn't enccourage it ...
Well, on into my day. Happy to give some support to Katie as one of the "good people" on our Steem blockchain.
Thanks again for all you are doing!
Indeed, a combination of the low Steem price with the new HF21 rules make it nearly impossible to upvote comments. The good thing is that it's a great counter for abuse and empty upvote phishing comments (that used to be a plague). It if was up to me I would just remove the comment upvotes and replace them with a tipping function. Similar to how you click on the upvote button now, it would upvote directly from your own SBD funds also making the comments go higher up based on amounts.
I'm sure it's not that hard for the devs to implement something like that and many (including myself) would be using that function.