RE: HF21: The end of an erra ?

I do not know a lot about the financial side, I do know how most on-line social media is when it comes to trolls, down votes and asshats in communities. The free down votes are not going to do diddly squat for controlling the post reward pay-outs. They will how ever have a massive effect on the social side I believe. Prior to HF21, down votes cost to hand out, it did not stop the trollish activity of very many people. The use of down votes were rarely used for excessive rewards, they were used as agents of agenda control, if a large account did not like your thoughts, your ideas, your lifestyle, your opinion, then down votes were used as a means to silence those.

Voting on comments for me went out the door as soon as my vote value dropped below 4 cents. Most of my votes have always been at the 100/50/25% levels. 100% for people/projects I support, 50% for content I like and for comments I liked, and 25% for miscellaneous things, Things I found interesting, but was running low on vote power, those got the 25%. I never gave a comment a 100% vote that I can remember once my vote value went over the four cent threshold. When it dropped, comment voting dropped, and will stay gone until such time as I can give a real vote, That being said, I have purchased a lot of BEER tokens from @beerlover and when the bot and server are back I will be passing them out for awhile in lieu of votes on comments.

So it is a wait and see what will happen mode, and a prep for the worst mode.