The EIP proposal consists of three parts.
* A convergent-linear reward curve instead of a linear reward
* A much bigger chunk of the reward pool allocated to curators
* A separate down-vote pool
I've spent quite a few posts discussing the problems with this proposal. A proposal that has the [public support of Steemit Inc](https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/improving-the-economics-of-steem-a-community-proposal), and next to that the support of [a vast majority of the top 20 witnesses](https://steemit.com/dpoll/@cervantes/as-a-top-steem-witness-will-you-support-a-hardfork-implementing-the-economic-improvement-proposal-or-eip). That pretty much means the proposal **will** get implemented. The only question that remains is: when?
I could get into all reasons why this proposal is more likely to hurt than to enable the STEEM economy, but if I did I'dd just be repeating myself.
So instead I link to my earlier posts and polls:
* A [poll asking what actions by passive stake holders are best for the platform](https://dpoll.xyz/detail/@mattockfs/what-action-by-pasive-stake-holders-would-be-best-for-the-steem-platform/)
* A [counter proposal in line with the outcome of the poll](https://steemit.com/steem/@pibara/improving-the-economics-of-steem-a-counter-proposal)
* Elaboration on [n²/(Sn+1) vs nS^log(n) reward curve](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@mattockfs/non-lineair-rewards-convergent-linear-vs-fish-size-bonus)
* [An idea for fixing the down-vote pool proposal by making down-votes hit curation more](https://steemit.com/eip/@mattockfs/eip-on-fixing-the-broken-down-votes-flags-reputation-system-for-steem)
In short, the proposal as is will make it much harder for new accounts to reach minnow status, hindering growth. Will create extra incentive for passive investors to choose delegating to or running bid bots over the less disruptive use of up vote, and generally will disincentify the creation of top content by greatly reducing the part of the reward pool allocated for content creators. There are ways to fix this, as outlined partially in the links above, but as is, the proposal will hinder growth, hit the small guys disproportionally hard, and will allocate more inflation to passive stake holders and less to active content creators than is currently the case.
Of the top 20 witnesses, 15 have expressed their full support for the proposal in its current form. 3 (@anyx, thecryptodrive and @themarkymark) have expressed their partial support and only one, @yabapmatt has voted against the proposal in @cervantes's poll.
No voters below the top 20 (@drakos 21, @kly 78, @krnel 96 and @pjau 99) are mostly way down in rank and thus the probability that the EIP proposal isn't going to get implemented as is is rather small at the moment.
If you are an active content creator about to get hit by the consequences of the upcoming hard fork that will implement these changes, how do you plan to react to to these changes.
Check any of the options that you seriously consider.
If you are already mostly a passive stake holder and not a content creator, please don't vote
