There can be no denying the fact that, for most of us, hardfork 19 (codenamed: "Equality", which I thought was pretty cool) was a really, really good thing. But with positive change there can also be not so positive changes. I want to take this chance to discuss my experience with the hardfork and my general impressions on how it's effected Steemit and how it's effected my posts personally.
When hardfork 19 (henceforth referred to in this article simply as 'the hardfork') first went live a week ago I was thrilled at the effect it had. I got my first 100 dollar payout post which was awesome. A lot of my posts were nearly doubling in their normal payout.
Then something happened...
Mysteriously, my posts began getting smaller payouts and fewer votes once people settled into the changes of the new hardfork. It might be that, initially, people were used to giving 100 percent of their vote (or higher portions of their vote). It might be that people were used to voting for more people. Whatever the case, suffice to say I was concerned. Was I doing something wrong?
I've come to the conclusion that I haven't been.
You see, while it's true that I get less super high paying posts than I used to, it's also true that my payouts in general have become much more stable. And, occasionally, there's the outlier to sweeten the deal. This does two things: it makes it much simpler for me to gauge responses to my posts and it makes it a lot easier to gauge changes in activity on the platform.
Of course, I could be wrong about everything and my next post in this series could reveal some new, better insight that I can't see right now. I've just started really paying attention to the platform and my involvement in it in detail (been a little over a week, I think) so we'll see.
All in all, I'm still glad about the hardfork. I think it'll make my journey a lot smoother in the long run.
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I think it is still early to evaluate HF19 fully, people (including myself) is still experimenting on how to use the voting power and this can take a few more weeks... Yes there are less voting because in the initial week many people run out of voting power, once people get used, we will see the real difference... For sure i am getting better payouts now, an usual post with 20 minnows upvotes could give me 0,1$, now it is giving me at least 1,5$ and that is ok for a newbie like me...
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Yeah, and there can be no doubt that hardfork 19 is pretty much just good for newbie minnows. I agree that it's a bit early, but thought I might share my first impressions. I think the more people who talk about it, the more likely we are to get an even picture of what effect it's had, who's been effected, and how. Thanks for reading!
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I have to say I thought the same when looking back at the reaction to "Oh, I should only use 11 upvotes per day?" sunk in... I have actually been busy and haven't been able to post much so I can't say I have fully experienced the hardfork.
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Mm. I'm not sure I have either. But I definitely do like my new voting powers!
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Thanks for sharing about this. Always interesting to learn more about what's going on on Steemit
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