So the HF happened and we had a little shutdown. No biggie really. I remember HF20 and to be honest it feels like HF21 was a way smoother rollout than its predecessor.

I had a quick scour around steem since the hardfork and I have had a chat to a few people to see what the feelings are and to get a sense of the general mood of steem.

My own observations are that my votes worth is down around 25%. I didn’t do a calculation so that’s an eyes view. If I am way out, it’s because my eyes are wonky 😊.

I was expecting to see changes on the payout values of all posts waiting payout due to the new curve. But looking at my own account, the payout value does not seem to have changed much. I have been told some posts went up by $100 while others were flagged down.

So, the flags. Well I have seen some healthy discussions, but I was rather disappointed in one channel where the downvote power was already going to people’s heads. I was rather surprised to see some of the names that were leading the pack. Ok so I didn’t look at the content they were flagging, but I was not impressed with the conversation. So much so I would nearly go upvote the content again!

On the positive side, I have been told some post were reduced by $40/$50 and that “trending looks good”

Does it?

https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmdYgXQfegHZYv4KaQPjqwLzFamBXYij9HaQ6BhSjv885E/1.1.png

Project updates, Steem promotion…. should all this be on trending? Is that the vision? Did we not introduce a proposal system for this sort of stuff? Where is the great content that non steem users will see when they hit trending? Are posts about steem and project updates going to attract new users? Maybe it does not matter, maybe no one outside of steem sees the trending page. Its was fucked anyway, so it looks right now to be in the same state. ~~I hope we don't get into removing shit just to replace it with shit from the inner circle.....shhhhh paula quickly!~~

I’m confused

“Use your flags” I hear you say, “don’t like what’s on trending then go flag it”. Yea right, that will be fun. Do you get off on that? because reading some of the chat, some people do. I reckon an analysis of trending right now would show many of the current trenders are also the flaggers!!!!!

My nature is not really to flag, yep I have done it, very little mind you but I have. Best guess would be 20 flags in over 2 years. And yep I’m sure I will in the future, but having free flags will not entice me to change my nature.

I guess that not being so positive about trending leaves me subject to the downvote pack. I’m sure there are a few that would like to hit me anyway just for the sake of it. Interesting times ahead and as my first post after the HF, it will be interesting to see who will flag me first.

Steem on