I do something similar with my comments. But the Hardfork will really motivate people to keep their Steem Power.

I do think this Hardfork makes things a little more difficult. As before I was upvoting at 100% pretty much everything on my Steemvoter bot. Now I've cut my Steemvoter bot down to like 5 people, and my curation will become more manual, and I will need to use the slider more.

I want to use the slider more so I can keep my voting power up.

But with this new Hardfork, it really gets back to what Steemit was originally thought of, as a way to pay ourselves for posting, and to earn a decent wage from it.

If you upvoted your self 10 times a day between blog posts and comments, you would be giving yourself about $30/day. And also really increasing your Steem Power.

Steem Power is much much more valuable now.

Yes, there are people who can upvote themselves with $50, $60, $70 upvotes.

But so what? Upvote yourself enough and over time you will be one of those with a $50 upvote.