Yet you still enter a contest for a chance to win steem on a platform you dislike... Quilldiva, kindly remove your head from your own backside, you love it here.
You're right, I do LOVE it here. And hence my endless harangue about doing the hard things necessary to make the platform a thing about which I could be enamoured.
But make no mistake, STEEM/Steemit is committing suicide and Happy Talk won't change the fact. At this point, it is unlikely that anything could, but as I don't know the meaning of surrender ...
Most charitably, Hard Fork 21 is fiddling while Rome burns. Less charitably, it's throwing fuel on the fire. Given that posts with payouts worth less than 16 STEEM will be severely disadvantaged, what do you want to bet that a ton people will now start using bidbots to get over that threshold in an effort to trigger follow-on curation? Moreover, because of bidbots' delegations, they will now possess a pile of "free downvotes." How long do you think it will be before they too are auctioned off to the highest bidder?
We're still trying to have it both ways, to eat our cake and have it too.
Either it's a 100% merit-based curation system or it's not. And if it's not, it's manipulation. You can't be half-pregnant.
With the doubling of curation rewards it now means that my engagement on the platform is going to be doubly rewarded, which is a win in my book. I curate more than I post so I'm looking forward to what lies ahead.
Given the new thresholds, I suspect most of your curation efforts will constitute "dust" and be worthless.
Still no Voice platform after their "launch" either?
As I've explained elsewhere, Voice can't launch until the EOS 1.8 upgrade is complete. That will occur on September 23 ... in less than a month. Admittedly, BlockOne made a hash of their "Voice Launch Announcement" and I've criticized them loudly for it. But there's nothing to be gained by beating a dead horse. If they've created a cheat-free platform where merit trumps manipulation, it will be the end of Steemit.
Quill