A month ago I started with my mana post. I thought that I could return to the mana subject a little.

It's obvious that things have changed. But how have they changed? I'm eager to hear how things are working for you now? Especially if you were under 40 rep and had under 30 SP before the hard fork 20, or if you started here after the hard fork 20. (Your account is about a month old or younger.)

I think one month is enough time to make things better when unexpected things happen. I had almost 200 SP before the hard fork so I had no problem posting or commenting when I wanted to. My account wasn't that popular, so I haven't had that much spam in my comments and when some nicepostman dudes commented, I just ignored those. I don't use bidbots (unless you count Hive account@dustsweeper as one) and I've decided to undelegate Hive account@steem-ua too because I'm not that sure about it. (But let's leave that subject to another post.) When I joined Steemit, 233 days ago and after I found few people to follow, I almost never browsed through the new or trending tabs. I found other ways to find new people to follow.

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I wrote a looooooong text here about selfvoting, payed upvotes, alt accounts, upvoting on alt accounts, spam and RC, but then realized that I don't want to give you my opinions before I've heard yours. As much as "Agreeing with you" or "You're absolutely right" comments would boost my ego, this time I won't tell you my opinions right away. Hive account@penguinpablo of course offers hard statistics that anyone can interpret, but let's not forget the fact that how daily life and doing things here really work. You are welcome to give me your opinions also.

So I will leave you a bunch of questions. Feel free to answer few, or all of those. Or ignore them completely and invent your own questions. Some questions are clearly directed to smaller accounts and some to those who have been here at least 3 months and active during that time.

1. Can you post and comment as much as you want to?
2. Have you (had to invest) invested in Steemit?
3. If you have done an introduction post, did the accounts commenting on your post help you or were they more like spam?
4. Is there spam in your posts as much as there was about a month ago?
5. How does the new tab look now compared to month ago?
6. How does the trending tab look now compared to month ago?
7. How does the introduceyourself tag look like?
8. Has upvoting with alt accounts reduced?
9. Do you get lots of upvotes from small accounts that do nothing else than upvote and you don't know where those come from? Has that changed after hard fork 20?
10. Is it easy to get new people to join Steemit?
11. If your friends have joined Steemit, are they still active? If not, is it because of Steemit or partly because of Steemit?
12. What are the things you like in Steemit?

I will give you my one strong opinion. It's not about hard fork 20. Ignore it if you want, but that doesn't change anything.

< in my opinion >

I upvote comments! I upvote comments because I want people to engage more. I upvote because I appreciate YOUR comment. I appreciate YOUR opinion. I upvote because I believe that without commenting Steemit would ultimately become just another wall of ads where people post something and upvote without reading. (I do use https://steemauto.com because I want to upvote people who write the kind of posts that I like. Or artwork. I do read most of those posts afterwards and adjust the upvote if necessary.) I upvote comments, especially if you have less SP and RC than I do, or have lower than 50 reputation. I DON'T upvote because I want you to return it. I upvote because I want to, when I want to, if I want to. I upvote because I can. So deal with it!

This next picture was made right after the hard fork 20 as I was waiting for my negative RC to change. So keep that in mind. I just forgot to post it then, and as I do think better late than never is a good saying, I'll post it now.

< / in my opinion >

Check out my post about How To Make Yourself Heard!

That's all folks again! Enjoy the music!
^{I know I've said about a million times that I like all kinds of music, but except for the last one, I don't know...}

MANA, Mana mana & Mana mana too.

Yours,
Insaneforks

EDIT!

I have a busy day today in my "real life" if such thing even exists as Hive account@cave-man says I'm just in his mind and a product of his imagination, so let's just say that he has imagined a busy day for me today.

I will answer everyone (almost everyone...) later, perhaps not until tomorrow, and I think some of these questions deserve entirely separate posts. So thank you for your comments in advance. And thank you all who were quick and answered already!

I would love to hear your comments too:
Hive account@codeomatic, Hive account@cutthruyou, Hive account@eccles, Hive account@juliamulcahy, Hive account@kanttiadvanture, Hive account@m-marinova, Hive account@magnus.harboe, Hive account@michaias, Hive account@moyam, Hive account@northwestnomad, Hive account@pehteem, Hive account@schanzerx, Hive account@tonsbe & Hive account@willhreserved.
And Hive account@kabir88.

Let's see who tracks their mentions.