This year has been quite good for me here on Steemit, I have been able to go from level 59 to level 62 three levels in one year I think is very good as that is what I was able to do all of last year and you know requirements increase per level. Of course mostly I have been able to do this thanks to the Actifit report which gets me a few votes every day and also I have made use of busy.org a high percentage of the year's days so I have gotten a nice amount of votes.
I know this isn't much but I don't have that many connections and I just do with the little I get from a few people who do give me a vote, for which I am thankful. I used to self vote all my posts worth about $0.002 which wasn't much still it added some SP. I stopped once I started using Steem engine because I do have a few regular sized votes there and I thought it wouldn't be fair to use the self vote with this in mind.
As for HF21 I do think it has decreased what I receive every day, but it hasn't hit me that hard you know I never was making that much so a few cents less is not too heartbreaking. The much hyped curation has not helped me much but I have received a few votes that have made a couple of my posts go to a few dollars, never over $5.00 though. I can't complain because I don't curate, my vote is so small I think it is an all around profitless activity for me and whomever I vote for.
Where I am not doing so good is in my SP only 340 not even close to being a minnow, but I started the year with only about 50 SP so I think I haven't done that bad, also I have gambled a lot on several of the new gambling apps that have appeared and I guess I have lost about 100 or more Steem, so if I didn't gamble I would be quite close to minnowhood.
Also the account isn't worth much with the price that Steem is at these days, in reality somewhere over $40.00 which is very low, so of course I will have to go with the flow accumulate more Steem and hope the price goes up and my account with it. Realistically my hopes for this happening are very low I don't see why Steem's price should go up considerably. I hope I am wrong.