I think things are pretty much back to the new normal on the Steem Blockchain. Yes bots and most users are in Voting Power Recovery mode though.
As a reminder I think if you upvote before 15 minutes you are now "donating" to the rewards pool instead of helping out the author of the post.
I think what happened is there was some bad code so if you upvoted immediately before the fork it considered your 100% upvote to be worth 100% of your vote power instead of using up 2% so with one upvote you went to 0% instead of 98%. Unfortunately the full upvotes really only counted for 2% as far as payouts go. I think this is referred to as the "scaling problem".
Update on Unexpected Voting Power Behavior
I think what confused people was that Steemd was giving what the figure was supposed to be until you upvoted. I think a wallet transfer or rewards claim might have given a partial update to the new Vote Power total.
As far as the resource credits problem I'm guessing the bug was they either took into account all your resources you ever used or if you used the blockchain within 5 days of the fork you were using resources when there was none available according to the code so you went way into the negative. Probably the later. It appears that bug is fixed and I think voting and posting is back to normal but it will be interesting to see how the resource credit manna thing goes. Personally I thought the bandwidth feature worked "OK" but I think the resource credits are so Steem can have SMT's Smart media tokens and try and be like EOS.
If I was running things I would probably not try and move towards SMT's but I am not running things.
I'm a little bit surprised Steem is back up to around $1 but I personally expect it to fall some in the next month or two.
I think some of these bugs have brought forth some concerns such as are the developers competent, testing issues, who decides who the witnesses are etc. etc.
As I have previously stated if the price of Steem falls more there could be some challenges for Steem Inc to pay their developer team and hosting fees although they could be making money off of blocktrades and bots.
On a brighter note I think 15 minutes is better than 30 minutes. Hopefully it gets reduced even more at the next fork if there ever is another one.
Wednesday 9-26
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