I had read miles of comments since this was proposed. They seemed hard nosed about it. I read it and thought that the planned new "Voting Power Algorithm Unchanged."
I also found this while waiting for the hard fork -
https://steemit.com/steemit/@ltndd1/20-vote-limit-the-race-for-your-vote-quality-over-quantity
Lots of chaos and confusion. If nothing has changed, I have 2500 Steem that might make it our of Poloniex.