Steem seems to be sleeping the dreams of the just (this is a literal translation of a saying we have here in Honduras, maybe all Spanish speaking countries "Esta durmiendo el sueño de los justos") better said it isn't going or doing anything. According to supporters of the hard fork things were going to get so much better including price because behavior patterns were holding it back, but they haven't, in fact I don't know if I am being biased but I seem to see less posts and of a lower quality than before, I have to look more to find something relatively interesting.
I do read people congratulating themselves because of the success of downvotes, but is this really so? Bid bots are probably seeing less action because people are not buying as many votes because of fear of being downvoted not because of a positive change of behavior and fear is not positive. Have you seen the quality of the trending page? It is even worse than before, at least before it was varied now it is just a collection of shit posts mostly related to Steemit upvoted by the same people who are downvoting other people who don't agree with them, which I actually thought would happen. By the way there still are bid bot voted trending posts, so they aren't even close to being dead but the new mind control deal is that now they are "Good" bid bots.
People are being bombarded with posts dictating whom to downvote. Isn't this really against decentralization? If I were to decide to downvote something shouldn't my decision be predicated on my thinking the post should be downvoted for some reason and not because somebody tells me what to downvote? This is worse than the political campaigns in this country and probably just as dangerous.
Now as for the other two wonderful ideas, 50/50 and the convergent reward curve, both suck, I can bet because I can perceive that at least 90%, probably way more of Steemit users, are receiving way less than they were receiving before, this has to have a negative effect. This is exacerbated by the usual bunch of low value butt kissers who will say anything to receive some consolation prize from the big accounts. As an example yesterday I saw a comment from some guy saying that he is feeling great about the changes and his curation rewards are so great now. Well I checked this guy, he has about 5,000 SP so his vote is worth about $0.04, this means he went up from making $0.12 to now getting $0.20 a day if he does vote at full capacity and if the reward curve hasn't screwed him, you can make your own conclusions. Perhaps he is talking about the future with $100.00 Steem and him getting $120.00 a day but I don't see that coming.
I guess Steem could shoot up in price if SMT's do make their appearance, because Steem-engine has shown it can get more involvement from users and I guess something that has been so advertised as SMT's would add great value, but let's be honest about this, Stinc says that they are just around the corner as they have been saying for the last two years but their record is not that good, I mean they did say that thanks to the ads Steemit Inc would no longer need to sell Steem to fund itself that didn't turn out to be so, in fact it was Fake News.
So in the end just as I thought the changes brought upon us by the hard fork have been negative for most except the group of people who are in some kind of circle jerk and are the ones who are on the downvote sprees and upvoting each others posts. I would really think they weren't kidding about wanting to see Steemit improve, as is their primary propaganda, if they weren't the only ones reaping the benefits.
