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RE: Was Hardfork Intentional To Get Rid Of Users?
I've never earned a cent anywhere else so I always wonder about people getting angry over rewards. For me it's all a bonus getting to have a hobby that i can earn from. I've never sold yet but hopefully will sell some STEEM in the future for profit.
That's how I look at it plus I've always had the rationalization from the beginning I wasn't going to get rich off it but none the less you got a bit of something out of it. Now if I was still in my twenties then I'd considered that by retirement it could have added up to a nice sum if it stayed a viable platform for years. Without investing more than just time though I hardly doubt I'd accumulate enough for it to even to pay for funeral expenses at the cost of funerals now a days. lol. Who knows though what the future holds, if it stays viable and crypto's become a thing that shoots to the moon my kids may find many years after my death that all my blogging finally paid off. They'd get a kick out of that and maybe a small bounty.
I personally got a problem with this situation. Not because I get less payouts (well that's a little part of it). But because it's obviously a complete takeover by the whales. All the while they claim that it's "for the good of the platform" and they are cleaner than clean. Those ugly motherfuckers prefer to let the platform die instead of throwing a bone to smaller users. They prefer to share votes with other big whales and get payouts for shitty blog posts that's multiple times higher than any of the posts that used a bidbots.
I don't know, I've been a huge critic on some of those bid bot post, some raking in eight hundred bucks on a regular basis. This is a situation where a number of people wrecked it for a smaller majority not abusing it to the extreme. I don't agree with the new circle jerking either that essentially locks out new users unless you join their clique(s).
Yeah it was misused by some. But I think it's wrong to downvote people using it (not to the extreme) when the content they post isn't bad. Right now they don't look at the quality of the post.