Me and the city reflected
After the excitement and party I made as I watched my payouts grow monstrously the day after HF 19 (I even wrote a post about it ), I finally fell into the reality: HF 19 made us more "poor" in rewards and votes in the posts. On the other hand, the number of followers grew frighteningly. Before HF 19 I had about 500 followers, today I have almost 800.
Reflecting first on rewards and analyzing my blog, I see that the rewards have dropped a lot. Posts that before HF 19 would easily cost 50, 100 SBD, today are no more than 20 SBD. One of the reasons for this is the "dump" in the price of Steem / SBD in the market and the problem caused by Poloniex in blocking the deposits and withdrawals of SBD by users which caused the market to be cautious in doing exchanges. I looked at the chart of the SBD today and the dump is being deep, the price already borders the 0.0005 BTC...
About votes and analyzing the number of followers, we see bloggers today with 1,000 followers and 30 votes in a post ... this is a very strange, surreal and I come to ask myself: "Where are these 1,000 followers who do not even comment on my post?"
Reflecting on followers I am very happy to see my number of followers grow every day, but with that growth it would be perfect if there were more interaction in the posts with first comments and second (of course) votes. People simply push the FOLLOW button, but they don't follow and don't say anything.
My conclusion and thought after the HF 19 are a little disappointing. The interaction is not happening. With more power in our votes(power in our hands) the practice of self - vote will end more with this interaction. The trending page is something I don't comment on, but it's strange to see 4 posts from the same user on the trending page every day. There are no bloggers here with quality content similar to this user and deserves this highlight?
