Let us rewind a bit, before this hardfork, some minnows were always screaming "we don't get voted" "we don't make enough" "the whales are this and that" 'steemit does not love us" etc now, after the hardfork we are basically back to what is worse than square one.
Why you may ask?
Because people are now abusing what was supposed to be a privilege to all. We all cried out to 
Those who shouted the loudest, now create a problem for the system. Most people expected the same fate for steemit as tsu, but steemit thrived in the darkest hour. Now the "human factor" has crept in and people must crash it because of greed. Must some act this way? 
I love steemit and won't want it to end in a disgraceful way, but sadly there are people out there trying to destroy it because of greed, and the worst part is minnows constitute a high percentage of this abuse.
The same minnows who were shouting we need votes, now selfishly vote themselves and worse still, those who vote insult your creativity by voting with 1% or some wickedly vote with 0% and expect you to vote too with 100%.
Do they for a second think people are not checking? I mean a post will have 150 views, 50 votes and $4, How wicked is that? The same thing we cried against, we are doing worse.
The people who begged for votes now siphon it all. Some will comment thrash and upvote themselves, some will use your thread to advertise themselves, how wicked is that.
Instead of voting me at 0%, please don't vote me at all, I prefer that. And please note that if you vote me at 0%, I will do the same. Greed will mark the beginning of the end of this great platform. People worked hard for this, so hard that it would be evil to wickedly spoil
These were the same people begging to trend, now we see they were not any better. I predicted this happening in my post some time back, truthfully what was supposed to be a thing of joy is a thing of sorrow.
I stopped voting myself in comments when I saw the harm in it My feeds is always littered with incessant posts, mostly junk by some with a mindset to cheat the system and deliberately crash it. If that is not sabotage, I don't know what is.
What I feel should happen
This hardfork should be reversed back to before, or the equality should be redefined. Although this would lead to lamenting, it would ensure the survival of this platform for longer than normal. This is a matter of survival, I preferred the 40 votes, although this hardfork has been helpful, the abuse has caused the cons to outweigh the pros. People are heavily powering down due to fear of a possible crash and that is as a result of the incessant abuse from those who cut across different reputation.
We have to make the hard choice to survive because at this rate, next year might be a long shot for this platform. This saddens me when people do these things.
I also feel those constantly voting their comments should be sanctioned as it is wrong. The idea of this hardfork was to empower all, not to empower some who won't help others.
This not fair to all as steemit was meant to help everyone, why will some decide to ruin it because they feel they can.Now the insulting thing is when people now invest a major chunk of their investments in other cryptos and say steem is falling. Why won't it fall?
Some people invested in this, no one has the right to come and do things that constitute sabotage, it is not fair to all.
I was supposed to bring in over 50 people this week, but I am now hesitating. I am 
