I really don't agree with you, if you are against advertising you are against advertising.

My central point was that advertisers cannot be allowed to receive more money in rewards than they pay in paying for votes. Which part of this do not not understand? I'm all for advertisers advertising on Steem as long as they pay for it.

As for trending it is still completely full of shit posts except now instead of bid bots it is now down to circle jerks.

I disagree on the those posts being actual shit posts. They're not. But they're not great and the not of the kind that would attract a great deal of attention from the outside. Improving PoB is a work in progress. Forcing the bid bots to become manual curators in less than a month has been a huge success.

There are a few dozen people for whom HF21 has been a God send for the rest of us it sucks.

A few dozen? I think you're at best polarizing things way out of proportion.

I can tell you HF21 sucks the most for bid bot abusers, the bid bot operators and various spammers. It's the free downvotes that have done it.

By the way, I checked out your blog. I didn't see much change because of HF 21.

Can you point out some struggling authors you consider to be particularly deserving who have been shafted by HF21?