Since the first DDoS attack a few days ago there has been a significant drop in new users signing up and existing users signing into the plattform and making comments as you can see in the charts to the daily statistics by 
I wonder, if this has an effect on the value of single posts, comments and curations of those who log-on to the blockchain anyway.
The Drop Is Quite Significant And Sets Steemit Several Months Back
the bottom chart: the orange line is comments; the blue one is articles
The charts are quite telling. Others in the article are less and show hardly or no changes. But the value for active users and daily comments is a lot but unimportant in the mechanics of steemit.
I am wondering therefore if this drop has consequences for the curation rewards and possible payouts for articles. In a regime with more or less a constant price pool fewer comments mean that every single comment becomes more valuable and the competition to get the most rewards for an article (or the curation of articles by others) becomes less intense.
By that logic, in a situation of "crisis" every steemit user takes away more than in good times.