I'm starting to feel like HF22 is in the clear, stress going down
Bittrex and Binance are back up. There haven't been any more bugs that popped up. I think things are going to a new normal. The trick with bugs is that they can show up later and unexpectedly, but for now I'm feeling pretty good.
Changes
SPS is funding projects
downvotes are hitting posts (especially botted ones)
Bots are pretty inactive though not totally dead
trending is much different
Posts are down - stats from @penguinpablo
If there's something that is a little worrisome then it's posts are down. This might not be terrible though. Could be that there's less incentive to spam, and that would be good. Could be that there's less incentive to post, and that would be bad.
Author rewards are down some, but if there are fewer authors your value per post could potentially go up.
@justineh was saying she's finding it harder to curate, so that would indicate that there's fewer quality posts going up. That's probably not great for the ecosystem as a whole, but could make for some better post rewards for authors who are continuing to post.
If you hodl now you can make bank later
Keep in mind that if you author, HODL, and we exit the 2 year bear market down the road these rewards could be worth a lot more. So, now is literally one of the best times you'll get to capture steem.
Another interesting observation: voting is up
As you can see it looks like people are starting to vote a little more. It's too early to tell if this is a sustained increase, but it seems like voting engagement is turning around.
That's also my observation after browsing the photography sections during the last couple of weeks - I am having difficulties putting all my voting power to good use.
I decided to power-up, hodl and curate, but I am not overly optimistic yet :)
It could be that people are using their hashtag space for Tribes instead of using descriptive hashtags.
That would make post discovery a little bit harder 👍
That's exactly how I feel now. I just made a post on how I pulled back my delegations on a few projects to try and get myself into curating more actively as well to keep on posting and hopefully create more quality posts that are voted organically and also attract new followers. The hardest part has been just as @justineh stated its been a bit harder but I hope that it will get easier focusing on specific topics and tags or using tribes to get what we want to see rather than just the whole bunch of data being added every second.
I think there is less incentive to post. Unless you’re a whale of course. Why would a low level account keep posting if they are earning even less than before?
It’s a curation game now.
Bitcoin is about to take a massive leg down. Steem will take a nasty hit. After that I think we can say we are in the clear.
Thats not good!
bakkt goes live on the 23rd. I expect the opposite.
SO the dump is finally over I think. Now I am expecting things to go sideways for a bit.
Thanks for sharing some stats, I appreciate it.
I think it's a mix of the two. #newsteem is about rewarding quality content and with the free flags, I think people who previously didn't feel that they published high quality, has become hesitant to post, as they face the risk of being flagged if they don't publish content that is of "enough" high quality according to others.
On top of that, we have the reward changes. Authors are making less, and authors who previously struggled to earn, are struggling more than ever before, so many of them are obviously feeling discouraged.
Besides that, we also have the decrease in comments due to the fact that people aren't rewarding comments like before. This is yet another thing that discourages many users as many of them earned at least something from making comments.
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone though, even the smallest child knew that HF21 would have this sort of impact. What matters now is what people do further on to encourage, motivate and reward others. Including the lesser accounts.
I even wrote a post about the importance of comments and engagement, and how people actually can and will benefit from the decrease. The real question is if people will believe what I say, and if authors will do what I said.
I was skeptical prior to HF21, but I have seen many good things afterwards, so I would say that #newsteem is looking good so far. I just hope it continues in the same direction. It's a loss for many short term, but I do believe that it's for the greater good, long term.
Comment upvote is guess what? Down like an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
Such a shame about the dinosaurs. I really liked the triceratops.
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Overall, I like what we are seeing with the HFs ;)
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Wading back into Steemit; I saw a lot of great art on my feed today. Steemit is full of amazing art, photos and ideas I am grateful to some of the new front ends making them easier to find.
It boggles my mind that some posters will leave and not create content when the price is low. As you pointed out, when the price is low its easier to attain more Steem in rewards.
I think we discussed this sometime back before the hardfork was implemented. As it was small accounts barely made a dime and now it is twice as bad.
I could easily quit myself since I have a smaller account but despite my previous apprehension to the fork I see things are changing for the better. I am a believer now.
It is a shame that the change is coming at the expense of small accounts but tribes are genuinely one of the best options at the moment to earn or grow faster.
I would love to see the stats on new accounts. That is probably on the low as well.
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Hundreds of good minnows and redfish are gone now. It has been bad all year, but the last two weeks have been brutal. You cannot see it in the payout numbers because so many big accounts are doing magnitudes better on their posts. All of you big guys are doing mach better, so you are not leaving, and instead are more active.
Hundreds of people who used to make 30 cents to $1 a post saw that drop dramatically and are now gone. These are the people I write minnow tips for. They have been saying goodbye or just leaving. People I thought would never leave are gone. Only the strong with vision are surviving with hope.
I enter contests all day every day and have been doing this for two years. I am winning most of what I enter now or getting in the top three since no one else is there. I have won contests I never won before. I have been the only entrant in some. I try for 10 sbi shares a week in winnings. Last week I won 24 shares.
Searching in "created" is a difficult task you do not need to do since many smaller blogs have already searched it and curated the cream so you can give some nice votes to it.
I write minnow tips and have for the whole two years I have been here trying to help little people succeed.
This is where I send minnows to learn to post and to see other good posts. I also tell them that the low payouts they see are what to expect, since they are unlikely to get votes from the top of the pond. Maybe this will now change, and I pray it will.
In the last days I have also been sending this list to other confused whales/orcas/dolphins who are trying to change with the new paradigm we got forked over to.
These are the places I send people to find starving yet excellent authors already trying on STEEM:
Initiatives you might want to support:
The people that do these initiatives can also use help themselves. Most run curation trails. If you like what they do after looking, and feel you can trust them, you can follow their trail and move on to the next place if you still have votes to give. Your fifty cent votes in volume would be a miracle to any of these places.
Many of the admins put their own steem and fiat into their programs in hopes of keeping them going. My list was longer, but many good people have had to stop over the last year.
My list is also not complete. I do not look at certain topics such as crypto, sports, or videos. All of those and more have their own curation initiatives. I am only one person and so focus on what I know.
Best of luck learning to curate and spread your votes. It is not an easy task with big sp, but I know you can do it so STEEM can thrive.
A drop in the number of posts is fine for now. What we were sorely lacking was consumers of content. With higher curation rewards that is improving. Higher earnings on existing posts will bring back the authors.
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@aggroed, Yes, Vote Based Engagement is rising and this is clear indicator that now Curation is the game.
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