Hello @project.hope .. thanks a lot for the mention my friend @crypto.piotr

I´m sure that project.hope is the solution for this newsteem...

Small community but it will be very powerful everyday, it will be an incredible tool to promote quality content, get organic upvotes, and maybe everyone can get the top position ...!!!

At the same time those who still use bots to push themself to trending page are being downvoted without any mercy.

I´m agree with you... Also if you are posting original content and using bots to promote them. For sure you will get a lot of downvotes.

It is very clear that some people don't read the content, they see only the hight rewards, and because of that you get a downvote.

I got that in my last publication, and I´m marking my words because my last post wasn't my original content. It is very original but I take that video from another autor https://steemit.com/dtube/@edgarare1/what-the-heck-is-steem-in-60-seconds, and I explain in the text who is the owner. The content is very interesting that´s the reason I took it just to promote it again to help the owner...

Maybe the promotion service won´t be the same, and good writers will stop posting, communities going to be more powerful since now. This is an opportunity for us and many others, if we can bring passionate writers to our community, it can bring us in a radar of somebody else to curate important content...

Will people still be upvoting comments?

Yes, maybe not personally, but using a bot to do that. Exist a lot of spammers who are voting content with downvotes, And many people read and vote with some positive percentage.

In my case, I always vote with a 100% ...

In conclusion: Project.Hope is the BEST STRATEGY...

Yours,
Edgar...!!!