Thanks for your post @booky

We need to get a large user base in order to have longevity. I personally believe that, distributing rewards is the best way to get an engaged community, and to have the meritocracy Steemit we all want. A few users taking all the author rewards won't help us moving forward.

The Steemit system is set up in such a way that rewards are bound to drop, and keep dropping. As the user base swells, the rewards will likely not increase at that same rate. Someday in the not too distant future, I expect to see trending posts with <$100 rewards...

Much of your drop in rewards are likely down to the fall in Steem Market Cap, rather than the new voting mechanism which was brought out 3 days ago...