"The rewards curve is changing. We expect posts that would make more than 20 STEEM under the old rules to earn more after the changes. Those posts that would have made less than 20 STEEM under the old rules will receive less after the changes."
20 Steem per post!? Most of the people could not even made 2 Steem with their posts. Many people can't even make 1 Steem with most of their posts.
The few rich gets richer, the poor majority gets poorer.
I was hopeful and optimistic about the HardFork 21 so far, but after the above quoted expectations, I have different feelings and opinions about HardFork 21.
Why were you optimistic? This was obvious. Look around at those very few people left who attempt to write honestly about this blockchain.
To be honest, I expected something from HardFork 21 to reduce the number of content creators, and increase the number of curators, but not this way/not like this. This will be good probably only for the whales, and maybe for the dolphins. By doing this, they will probably reduce both the number of content creators and the number of curators as well. Basically the number of active users, which is already low and getting lower and lower nowadays almost every day.
Yes, I think they are being encouraged to move into tribes/communities. So long as their voting activity remains in rshares/steem and is not wholly in tokens, then that may not be so bad, but I don't see many tribe-tokens able to fully hold on to their value.
And yes, blockchain activity as measured by the reward pool has been dropping quite sharply for the last 2 weeks.