At this point, it is highly unlikely that these changes will be made. After the hardfork, there will be the "SPS" system where users (such as yourself) can make proposals and get funding if you

The goal of this is to make author rewards higher - for the authors who are actually contributing. Whether it will actually work as hoped remains to be seen.

Honestly, we are pretty close to "bottom" right now already in terms of whales just taking as much as they possibly can. It can't get much worse than it already is. The system needs to change

More than anything, the hope is that more votes will go towards actual contributions after the incentives are changed. While authors may be getting less of the overall percentage, more could go towards

Well, the hope is that after HF21 - these things start to improve.

That will already be supported. Users will be able to transfer SBD to the account and it will be added to the fund. There are also some discussions on trying to make beneficiaries work as well, so users

Yep, that is the idea.

Time will tell. From what I've heard, it will not have much of an impact on the costs for consensus (witness) nodes. It's a bigger deal for 'full' nodes and exchanges.

That is closer :) It technically gets even more complicated because 100% of the curation does not go to curators (if votes are placed within the first 15 minutes). But it is the correct line of thought.

The math works out a little bit differently, but basically yes. As I said in the post, a "more than 50% reduction".

It was discussed at length. My 'vote' was technically for a 10% reduction in witness pay too (as well as SP inflation). The main reason against it though (that I do agree with) is that it affects backup

From what I've gathered, it seems the most likely long-term funding source for the SPS will be 10% of the total inflation. This would be "paid for" by reducing the amount of inflation that goes

I was personally leaning towards pulling a little bit from each of the three inflation sources (rewards pool, SP interest, and witness pay) so that the SPS had around 10% of the inflation. The consensus

We will see.

Now they have decided that the Authors earn to much This is definitely not my position, although I still need to work on articulating it.. I plan to do a post within the next week or so with my views on

Voted for YES

I would love to be able to come back in a year's time to see things going completely the other way. But to be honest, right now I just don't know what to do. Well, if anyone was able to know for sure whether

please stop memo spamming me

It's sad to read this. Not just because I find myself agreeing with most of it, but also because I think a large portion of Steemians feel this way. At this point, it is hard to find people here who are

Great work!