You are shrewd.

I wrote this there and i repeat it here:

>After discussion with the witnesses, it was decided to apply the “vote dust” shift to all votes equally. Each vote that is cast will be shifted down by about 1.219 SP. This effectively establishes a “baseline” voting strength that applies to everyone, while still maintaining a linear rewards curve for votes above the baseline. This way even large Steem Power holders won’t be able to profit from casting countless inconsequential votes.

Few words...

I think this will create a sort of iniquity. 

The splitting up of big upvote is better of a 100% upvote to a lucky author (Perhaps his friend).

shrewd indeed. nice consolidation write up. i am a bit out of the loop due to working on slothicorn development....

Thanks for the breakdown pal. In all honesty, I'm still trying to understand parts on this platform and I find It very helpful :)

These all sound great.

I would like to see the 7 day limit on author/curation/comment rewards go away. It should gradually decrease over time, but I think many old articles that are very well written are not paid attention to because there is no way to earn off of them. It is still possible to comment/upvote to get visibility on these old posts. Further, authors are discouraged from fixing up old posts because they receive little reward for doing so.

I didn't read it all, but noted some good points, ty.  "changes are part of laying the groundwork for getting the blockchain ready for SMTs", sounds solid.  So when is 20 happening, approximately?

That Steve is a troublemaker u.u xD
Thanks for writing this article or I would have never notice ;)

Resourceful as always! Thanks for update, good read!

Thank you for the layman's review...and saving us from reading the rocket science!
I consider myself up to date on the upcoming changes now. <3

Thanks for all of this...   I'm not sure who would flag you because I didn't know any of this was happening and if I did know I most certainly wouldn't understand it.

I don't feel like any of these changes would really affect me one way or another, but the main thing I got from this hilariously fireworked article is what a hard fork was... in my head I thought it was where someone took a copy of the open source code and went in an entirely new direction... I didn't realize it was just a new version number... slightly disappointed but much more informed.

Thanks for this!!

This is war... So the bots are going down???

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hi @mikepm74
Thank you so much for the summarised version of HF20. 
I too disagree on dust vote threshold removal. 
this will increase blind upvoting. 

However I though do not spam votes but I do like to control my upvote percentage to support wider range of supporting good contents of my fellow peers; so I am not certain the lower VP is a good call. 

**upvoted**

Thank you sir for this clear guide.

I see other issues in the system as well.

There are whales who upvote support users in a specific area and ignore others. Im juat concerned since I thought the platform was about making good content and getiing reward due to curation. But since some whales and even witnesses support people according to other criteria such as their relative level of acquaintance with each other, this forces minnows to stick up to these money making whales. All im saying is it is quite unfair to see the big guys help out the big guys. Now whats left for minnows is nothing. What's more is that this further decreases their motivatiom to make content simply because good content wasn't rewarded in the first place.

I may just be frustrated or self entitled. I dont know. But i do believe that curation is subjective. I just want that subjectivity to be fair and distributed equally to users. Lol