A look at my steemworld.org stats shows me that my curation rewards are going to be double as high compared to before the HF 21. When clicking the "refresh" button under "Coming rewards" on steemworld, it would usually calculate number of about 3.5-4 SP. Now it is almost at 8.5 SP. Incredible number when you consider the current Steem price below $0.20. Imagine the Steem price back to $4, curating alone would take the passive income to a whole new level.

The mere idea thereof makes me wholehheartedly acquiesce in the decrease of my author rewards: while before HF 21 my recent posts made about 16 Steem, now it is at 10 Steem. Altogether, it will make earning Steem more difficult for people streaming in in the future, which I think is a good thing so that the get-rich quick mentality will be curtailed a bit.

In terms of commenting I actually like the fact that upvoting comments is harder, in the optimistic hope that people holding a higher SP stake will instead directly visit other people's blog and invest these upvotes in their blog articles. That's the way I have been doing it for some months now, and personally it makes curating much more enjoyable. I am only curating manually so that I always know where my vote goes, and try to diversify my author selection as much as possible. I have always liked the joy when I realised that someone has manually curated one of my posts, irrespective of the vote value. So I now want to consciously give back that exact feeling I liked so much. Of course we can still upvote thoughtful, dedicated comments on our own blog articles, but in my honest opinion there are nonetheless quite some people who covertly comment mostly with the aim of getting a high upvote. In that case I definitely don't want to play the people-pleaser, especially when the comments will significantly increase when Steem is back at higher prices.