HF19 has fucked the little guys even further than i thought the founders could anticipate and things are just getting started!
Before HF19 as a minnow you could vote almost 40 times before exhausting your voting power that day but now it's down to 10! Although each upvote was worth less back then, it made one express support to a post or comment of one's liking and even drove post discovery. Nowadays most people read the top posts on Hot and Trending and ignore everything on New.
Those who manage to scroll New only upvote people with reputation score of 64 and above and this is only if they find it early on from publishing time. Through observation you can see simple posts of lets say an image or video and 1 sentence from a person with reputation score of 64 and above get 200 upvotes and at that exact time the post has like 50 views. What made the 150 people who upvoted upvote without even opening the post? Simple answer Reputation score.
It's not bad to be upvoted by people italiceven though they don't read your posts, what's really sad is to say that HF19 was to help the little guys when the big guns make twice more now!
Before i forget there's a newcomer (3 months old) dolphin with really good SP who really writes awesome posts and also makes online courses, he is synonymous with lengthy posts and videos that seem to go on for days (I'm a fan of him on steemit and outside steemit) lately he made a course and was advertising it on facebook where he tells people to pay $180 for it and be ready to invest another $100 upon buying the course...
Basically what he does is get people to pay him $180 to tell them about steemit and then they pay him $100 so he can be upvoting one post per day for a month from those who buy his course!
In an age where everyone is trying to get people on steemit for free and some go to extent of spending their time and money to get people on steemit, others are exploiting newbies!
HF19 has created uncertainty that was never there before and this might screw this platform innthe future. I hope something gets done soon.
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