I get so sick of all the rewards pool "defenders". Why do they get to say what I can or can't post or how many times I can post it? They don't own this blockchain. And if the rewards pool system is really dependent on these white knights to protect it from "abuse"... we're doomed by design. Pack your bags now.

And I think you are probably spot on... the "new feature" is just one more tool for them to keep the rewards pool to themselves.. All in the name of fighting "abuse" so they can look like the good guys... especially looking like the good guys to the whales who see things like this lessening the inflation on the pool and helping the value of their investment. If it keeps going this way this place will be a ghost town... abandoned by everyone but a few whales Hodling their precious (and at that point practically worthless) Hive. Realwolf and his proposal to switch the rewards system to a SMT is gonna be the beginning of the end if it happens. IMHO. I'm not surprised though... these "developers" and "witnesses" have been pretty good screwing this chain up since the early days on Steem.