Changing the vote target from 40 to 10/day was not a well rationalized decision and I expressed my disagreement with the change with a rationale to keep it as is before the proposed changes for HF19 were finalized but there was not enough support on the side of not changing it to effectively block the change.
Any changes to Steem, especially multiple changes affecting the same results, should be rationally scrutinized instead of blindly accepted or sycophantically cheered. I tried.
Thus we now have muddied results from the experimental change to linear rewards.
The comment from Vandeberg is on point regarding the reward pool.
yeah, why not just go down to 1 vote that can take in all future rewards from the steem. Save yourself all of this headache and just upvote yourself once every 100 years...
Linear rewards is just a weird backdoor hack to fix distribution. Now it's leading to autovoting. Well, more autovoting. I miss the old pool with 2M. I miss 40 votes. I think I'm net positive on linear rewards for now, and overall slightly negative on this hardfork.
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