I saw another positive effect of HF21 today. The free downvotes have caused at least 1 of the mega whale upvoters to see a reduction in demand for votes. This caused them to decide to begin giving away free manually curated votes with their extra SP. My [Mission Agua Possible] project received one of those free votes today. And boom just like that, a real world market-induced change for the better, playing out in real time. Maybe I'm easily impressed by that, I dunno. It feels pretty big, pretty good. Until now all I've personally received from HF21 was misery, so this provided a needed morale boost.