I came out of my study coma yesterday and to my surprise, awoke to a brand new post HF20 Steemit. Now I don’t fully understand everything that has been changed, but I did some research on some new initiatives that reignited my love for Steemit.
I’m sure many of you have already heard of 
When I first joined Steemit a year and a half ago I was very optimistic for the future of this platform, which slowly faded as more and more people discovered new ways to abuse the system.
I used to dream of the day where I would reach the reputation of 60 and spent hours writing and curating that summer to establish a presence in a sea of spammers.
I was sure that after I reached a high rep, the upvotes would start flowing in and I would be that much closer to financial freedom.
The ability to buy votes completely uncoupled the relationship with reputation and quality, which made me feel like all of my hard work was for not.
Thus started a pattern of picking up and dropping steemit every few months, losing faith more and more every time I “closed up shop” for good.
Everyone is assigned a UA score, which essentially replaces the old reputation system. What’s cool about this reputation is that it takes into account how you interact with other, the quality of your followers, and the quality of your posts and gives you a ranking that will decide how large of an upvote you will receive from
This isn’t another upvote schemed circle jerk!
As of writing,
That’s right, how you use Steemit actually matters again! Can you believe it?!
This is going to open the doors for every account no matter how small or large to benefit from participating in the Steemit community!
One up-vote from
That means you’re free to use that upvote to go and support you’re favorite steemians and raise that UA score without the knowledge that you are actually receiving a return on you’re steem power investment.
This will in turn act as a positive feedback loop because the higher your UA score, the more you’re upvote will be worth.
Right now my UA score is 3.922 and I have a rank of 4009 compared to all of the Steemains on Steemit, which isn’t that bad for a guy who pops ups every few months to see how my Steemit buddies are doing.
If you’re interested and want more info, check out this article written by 
Well I have to get back to the grind, so until next time, this has been a message from your friendly neighborhood #spiderblogger!
