I've not posted, commented or voted for a couple of days now but this morning when I checked steemd.com I see this. My voting power has never been that low at any point during the two years I have been on here. (God only knows how much mana/rc I will consume with this comment with a .png). Hopefully, things will balance out over the next few days as suggested by the devs but the communication has been pretty poor throughout this process with users having to do their own experiments to see which actions consume the most RCs.

It is hard to stay positive when decisions are made that don't make sense. To me, anything that makes it harder for new users or users with low SP to interact with the site is a bad thing and just telling people that they should just buy more Steem if they want to use the site is a bit shit.

I've posted and commented quite a few times asking why the decisions made by Stinc appear to favour large SP holders at the expense of low SP holders/new users but it seems that blogging on the Steem blockchain is the past and Dapps and SMTs are the future.

Thanks for the post. Like you, I enjoy this platform and the interactions I have on here but perhaps, the bloggers will do better in the future going somewhere else while the whales keep on earning most of the Steem through delegation and vote selling.