Well, this was an interesting ride.

You are still a member, we do appreciate your view and opinion.

The lifetime membership is still in play for T-0.

You make some good points, sadly you judged a lot sooner before the new account was even active. The upvotes will be slightly bigger than current T1 and T2 to make up for the subscription fee.

We are focused on growing, and the subscription was the way to go. If we stay the same, well. Then we are going to drop by about 25-30SP. That is going to hurt a lot for many members and even then we will get members complaining about the smaller upvote. No matter what route we take, there will be people who complain. Sadly we do not control the price of steem.

Yes, the newer members might be affected a bit negatively, they still have 3 weeks to get into T2 by upvoting Qurator Post.

The choice was hard for us and we have to adjust for the market changes. I think we all got spoiled with the high prices a while back. @scrooger has been pumping steem into the main Qurator account to help out with the leases. Way more than Qurator is making per week... Sadly he can't keep it up...

For us, it is sad that Qurator members are upvoting at minimal upvote rates and then as soon as we change the system they all get angry since we can't give bigger upvotes. Yet, they are more than happy to blow that 2 steem on pay4vote bots. So much for community then. A lot of ME ME ME instead of WE WE WE. Qurator is only as strong as the community makes us. We give back all our SBD and more each week to keep our upvotes high for our members.

The changes are in and a lot of people are not happy about it. Some are fine with it and understand the long-term approach.

If you do not post that much, don't go for the subscription. You still get the lifetime support. And when the price of steem rises again then so will that lifetime support vote.

Sorry for the little rant but felt it was appropriate in this case. =P