Good news. The SBD to STEEM conversion that was causing recently so much trouble and confusion has been removed from Steemit's user interface. The solution was just implemented and merged on the Condenser GitHub https://github.com/steemit/condenser/pull/2144. Access to this feature was removed from the UI and put on hold for further investigation.
Here's an example of a user caught in this conversion dilemma https://steemit.com/steemit/@ewuoso/please-what-can-explain-what-happened. Others had hundreds and thousands of SBD caught in the conversion. The problem was that many users were doing the SBD to STEEM conversion, in a 3.5 day process that cannot be canceled, and getting less STEEM than the SBD they were converting. Whereas they could have exchanged their SBD on the internal or external markets for a much better price. Thus, the conversion was preventing them from higher profits, given the SBD pump that started over a week ago.
Currently SBD is at $11 USD and STEEM at $1.75 USD, on Bittrex.
Thanks to the developers for addressing this issue.
This is how the new drop-down looks like under the Steem Dollars menu:
Also, according to a comment in the modified files, "post 2018-01-31 if no calls to this function exist may be safe to remove."
Go to https://steemit.com/~witnesses. My name is listed in the Top 50. Click the upvote symbol.
with cli_wallet : vote_for_witness "YOURACCOUNT" "drakos" true true
with steem-python: steempy approvewitness drakos --account YOURACCOUNT
