So, my last three comments combined have taken roughly 82 billion. It's not being based off character length from what I can tell, but it seems to be either increasing as I comment more, or increasing the more I converse with someone else. I won't know which until after I post this one. :)

You do a great job of describing the double edged sword of this hard fork, Hive account@edicted. There is definitely an on the one hand and on the other type of scenario going on here. When I came here, I just wanted to post. Now, because I'm a part of a wider community, I want to comment and upvote, too. And I want to do it without running out of RC/mana. I've already invested some into STEEM. I'm wondering how much we need to not be concerned with what we're trying to do here.

Smaller accounts need to do more in order to gain exposure, with or without the use of self-upvotes or bidbots. Not sure how they can do this unless the system does start equalizing somehow in their favor. Not sure how that would work, but it would be nice that the hard workers on the lower end (not saying everyone mind you, because not all are equally hard working) would catch a break.