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RE: Upvote value cut in half with HF21. Why?
Yeah, I'm not buying the narrative that people hammering the downvote pool is the sole cause of the upvote pool being pilfered, because if true then there is a stalemate between post rewards increasing from downvotes and the voting pool decreasing because of downvotes. There's definitely something cooking, and I suppose we'll find out in time, but I'm fairly certain it has nothing to do with increased use of downvotes, that makes no sense.
People are hammering the downvote pool? Can we confirm that? That would be a positive sign, if by that, you meant people were wasting downvotes in a form of protest.
Apparently people immediately went about hammering trending posts that had used upvote bots. I guess that's to be expected, but apparently one of the targets was a new user that decided to buy upvotes, which last I checked new users buying steem helps the ecosystem, but I guess after a couple years of rage that some have against bidbots it is to be expected. I don't like how they were implemented because they created a problem that they then solved for profit, but I wasn't involved in the supposed stampede.
Thanks.