This is a horrible decision to increase the AFIT minimum by 100x in order to convert AFIT to STEEM. Why not just increase the number of AFIT required to get the upvote instead of allowing it at 5-20 AFIT now?
You've now alienated new members and those, like me, who have been diligently using the Actifit platform but don't have anywhere near 10,000 AFIT despite using it daily for months. Now we can't participate in the process of building our SP (and delegating it back) through Actifit usage. What is the point for users of Actifit now if the AFIT is useless?
I agree completely.
What really pisses me off is the suddenness of this change and lack of warning. I was at 8.2k now that is useless.
All it seems to do is benifet those at the top and not most users. Terrible decision and poor execution.
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Think about the big picture.. Right now on Steem-engine you can have your addition 1.8K tokens for 7 steem! (That is stupid cheap).. That little investment will get you back into the upvote rounds and within 2 upvotes you will have made your money back!!! But now the upvotes will come much faster because there aren't so many people in line waiting for votes... This is great, take advantage of it! ;)
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I disagree, I think this was a fantastic decision because it will ultimately help all token holders! (So how can it be bad?)... First and foremost this is great for the AFIT token itself, it will finally create a reason for demand (which drives price up) and it will keep people from gaming the Actifit system in multiple ways, which hurts us all. Secondly, it encourages more people to invest in the platform and HOLD their earnings rather than spend them which again helps the price rise because of supply an demand.
Plus it rewards the users who have been here for longer and/or those willing to invest in the platform because they believe in it, so it is rewarding the people who are actually believe in actifit not just the leaches here for the upvote bot.
Far to many people showed up here just for the big upvotes, which is not at all what this community represents. So if this chases people away from the @actifit platform then I don't think they ever really cared about @actifit, the community, or their health at all, they obviously only cared about the upvote... in which case they were gaming the system, taking rewards from people who actually care about this platform and deserve the rewards! In which case I want them gone so the rest of us, the ones who actually are here for the right reason, would get bigger daily rewards. Win/Win
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You're an asshole for thinking that I never cared about Actifit. I've logged everyday for months and don't have 10,000 tokens for all that effort. I've been actively encouraging other users with upvotes and previously delegated SP to the cause. If the whole purpose of Actifit was to force people to buy tokens to get any benefit from it then it's all a moneygrab. Fuck off.
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LoL, calm down friend. I never said you didn't care, I said far to many people are just here for the weighted upvote. I am Sorry if you misconstrued that as an insult towards you, it wasn't, it was a general statement about those people. If you don't fit into that group then no need to freak out and start name calling. ;)
Who is being forced to buy tokens? No one. But if someone chooses to participate in weighted upvotes then there should be a barrier to entry so the system doesn't get gamed, which is continuously happening and is hurting every single token holder on the @actifit platform.
Asking a person who has never used the actifit platform to pay $6.63 in order to gain the benefits of weighted upvotes is a reasonable price in my eyes, less if they are already active users of the platform. (That is less than a meal at a fast food place). Especially considering you would make your investment back in 1 month through weighted upvotes.... So I guess I don't see how that is a "moneygrab"???
I would love to hear a response but please leave the name calling and attitude behind. I don't need that negativity in my life :0) Take care.
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hey @shauner,
Thanks for sharing your perspective.
The new min threshold is not intended to push people away at all. We did explain the reasons of this adjustment (large pending queue and waiting times for up to 2 weeks, decreasing STEEM price, decreasing AFIT price on S-E), and overall this is directed to better sustain and grow the project.
The AFIT for vote exchange service is just a service to earn more SP, although the core of actifit is to have you get healthier, join a community of like minded individuals and earn tokens.
Our plans focus on making sure the ecosystem is well functioning and to try preserve the value of AFIT for you and all other token holders.
Hope this makes sense.
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Thanks for the reply. I did read the explanation and realized that changes needed to be made, but this is a drastic change that will disproportionally impact newer users to Actifit and leave little incentive for new users to join in the future.
This leaves virtually no path to a new user being able to actively benefit from Actifit participation without a buy-in. People new to Steemit, like me, were thrilled to have a fun activity like Actifit that could help us with our fitness and allow us to build our Steem Power at the same time. 95% of the SP I've earned has been because of Actifit. Without that component, I will likely discontinue using the Steemit platform because it's too difficult to build SP without an outside activity like (the former) Actifit... or a big buy-in.
I really hope you'll reconsider the drastic changes that have been made to Actifit and focus on the newish users to ensure its continued growth.
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@mcfarhat I know why you did the change and after reading some of the comments can see the logic behind it. I do however still think to raise it to such a large amount is the wrong move. I think you are going to be excluding alot of people from being able to use the vote exchange service. I do think potentially this might be a better option to have 50% upvote at 5k and 100% upvote at 10k. This would provide an incentive to hold Afit but also sound more of an achievable target. Also onto sort of an unrelated topic, I have noticed that there is no incentive to carry on once you have gone past the max daily reward level. Potentially maybe this would be a better option to look into overall instead of how you use the current vote exchange system. Perhaps the vote exchange function should become unlocked once you have gone over the max reward by a certain amount a few days in a row.
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