If there was one account that if I was asked who I had the most respect for on Steem, It would be 
.
Whilst many suffered The Haejin Effect, he ignored the bollocks behind the 'its your own stake, shove it all up your own arse if you wish' mentality and continued in ways he saw fit to counter greed, and share what he has.
Currently, I have 12000 Steem Power issued to my account, for free, which is payed forward to around 250 accounts each week.
I, and many others, received wallet gifts from this guy, without any prompt, just as a token of his appreciation.
His #fulltimebots currently roam the blockchain, voting content creators and people he considers to be putting their best foot forward.
is a man of the community, a developer, and has Steem close to his heart.
Vote 
for witness here: https://steemit.com/~witnesses
Mana Time
Over the past 24 hours or so, I've received more than a few messages from worried account holders. The summary of these messages is that there is fear that the new Resource Credits implementation will have a severe impact on engagement, particularly for small account holders. This is the situation for an account with 200 Steem Power:
As things stand, this account is unlikely to hit top engager of the week. But at the same time, 
Concerned Red Fish:
I'm not even worried about the league, I've just been using it for fun and stress relief ...I understand, keeping spam down, and quality, etc. but most of the rest of the world does not ...I'm more worried about Steemit in general, then everyone on every board etc. I see this as pulling the crush the little guy card. Sorry to bug you, you are about the only witness I really interacted with other than
. Thanks.
My reply:
I agree with the little guys feeling the pinch the most. The issue of abuse, although widely broadcast, isn't taken seriously by many as they do not see what the spam squad and people with eyes on the chain do. We have been taken to the cleaners both SP and bandwidth wise by abusive accounts for a while now, and the hope is that this will counter that somewhat.
It will be tough to start from 0 with nothing to invest, but not impossible. What new members wont be able to do is dust vote all day for curation, and spam meaningless comments all over the place. Finding a balance with regards to Resource Credits / mana was always going to be tough, but I'm going to reserve judgement for a little while, and suspect that if there are clear signs that what the 'real' people have in place to interact is not enough, adjustments will be made.
This has not been a perfect roll-out, even Steemit Inc. have admitted to that. And I hear talk that it's not just the smaller accounts who have issue.
I advise 2 things, patience, as 
And, a little bit of humor: https://steemit.com/hf20/@markangeltrueman/am-i-the-first-person-to-post-one-of-these-surely-not-fuhrer-hf20
Let's wait a couple of days for the Equibalanceilibrium to take place, and see where we are then?
Asher