I like the downvote function, it brings balance to the reward distribution and hopefully will result in better content on the platform and better distribution for everyone,I've been focusing on bidbot users and probably will stick with only bidbot users, some of them have complained, but many understood and it's not like I have a vandetta against any of them, it's just that they are drinking too much from a finite pool and not leaving anything else to the rest of us. Ofc, I'm always afraid that I get some retaliation for a flag on a bidbot abusers, but I know that even if I did get a revenge flag some other community members would help me out, I trust the Steemian community.

The 50/50 curation isn't that bad, it allows one to focus on quality over quantity which is something that we really needed on STEEM, for example, today I'm focusing on curating and not caring so much about posting since I know I can engange and curate and receive as much as I probably would by posting something.

All-in-all I like this newsteem, now it just takes time to see what happens, human psychology is a hard thing to influence, which is what this fork is trying to do. Just look at countries, by changing a 1% there and giving one percent in another place a whole country can shift its habits, and STEEM is just like that, a country being built.

Depending on how this HF goes I might power up some STEEM, been seeing a lot of good things from some of the tribes, for example future plans to increase the tribe's token value.