this is what I meant with the mess of HF20
yes, you currently have RCs for only 5 comments left
you started out with 100% RC and have been depleting it faster than it got recharged within a day via votes, comments, post, edits, ... all actions that make an impact on the blockchain via an entry.
so it's not like you have 5 comments a day but 100%=19 at start and the 100% deplete via action and recharge over time.
I am not one hundred percent sure if it still works this way like with voting power before but there it was the case that the recharge is a little bit faster at the low end.
of course you could say this equals roughly on average 5 comments/day or 4 votes/day + x upvotes (maybe 10)...
more RCs via more steempower, e.g. bought.
that is the sad state of affairs at the moment.
Huh, now I see what you meant... I didn't realize it would bite this quickly.
So, won't steem just wither away because the barriers of entry are so high to new users? Feels like pretty stringent limitations, and hard to pull yourself out of them.
Haha, great question :)! Actually I see it quite the same at this point in time (steem will wither away because the barriers of entry are so high to new users). But who am I (but a nobody)?
There will be one major change, announced for march 2019, the SMTs, Smart Media Tokens. They will change everything, maybe changing it for the better. Also some people keep repeating steemit was not build for what it is now but for what it will become with SMTs https://smt.steem.io/
Still HF20 had a desastrous impact imo for new users.
Before HF20 you could post, comment and vote as you want, only 3 second or 20 second waiting time. Only your vote may have not been possible because too low. (And some rare bandwith issues but I can't explain that, don't know how this worked.)
You are never a nobody. Newbies are the most valuable people on the platform in my opinion :)
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