I think you and I are in the same boat along with potentially thousands more. I've been sitting on steemd.com and noticed that the delegated steem they've been giving new accounts went from 27-something to 12.854. Made an instant difference in bandwidth and my ability to upvote.

I'm guessing this is in anticipation of me receiving my first rewards? Would have been nice for the adjustment to take place after the rewards so we could keep working without getting the error message. :)

Since I'm new, I'm sure someone's logic is being applied, but I'm in full agreement—from the Plankton perspective, it doesn't make sense to do this so early on in the game, at least without someone way to warn people.

Unfortunately, without a means of direct notification, we're left guessing until somebody confirms it here or posts about it.