I am trying very hard to give one vote to another for every vote I give to myself.

Not gonna lie, it is freaking hard

:)

Already tried it.  So I guess Extremely Tempted.

I am definitely more aware of my voting power than I was before...going to have to be much more selective now. Hopefully others will do the same when the hysteria of being able to give a larger payout with one vote subsides. Definitely done voting on my own comments now!

I already was, and at some time it was as much as 20,000SP. I don't see how 'me' should be excluded from one's ranking of value of everything. Isn't it even the  emblematic boilerplate election shot of a politician casting a vote, most likely for himself, on every tv news channel?

I look at it this way - self voting is essentially distributing the new tokens to everyone. I don't vote my comments but it looks like this is going to be a thing for the graspy imaginationless spammer types for a while. I don't think it really matters in the long run, the more people the less this is a profit and blah blah. It's just a transition period because the userbase had adapted to 10 cent steem, and now it's 20x the size. The market will bring the people to try every way to get a piece of it they can think of. And probably a new hardfork change will be indicated by the way it is played out.

Not tempted at all.

Iper tempted, beyond the limit of knowledge

It's difficult, but if we all isolate ourselves, eventually this just won't work. We have to keep reaching out to others, encouraging them and building up this platform.

I feel that this is the answer to countering the shit posts, but also making steemians who curate the money they are used to.

Good for me and you because we are constant quality posters.

Damn it, now im tempted again.. LOL thanks a lot @neoxian.
https://steemitimages.com/DQmZUuC1UJixZXinv7NMFWuxNZHtQ6hJjHzm73Ge5ZawBzU/tempted%20gif%20meme.gif

I have not used almost my vote for the fear of inflation or devaluation that could generate this disproportionate increase

Very very tempted me:D

Very important. As I'm sure you're aware this was one of the reasons for squared vote curves.

From the whitepaper, this is known as the Prisoners Dilemma:

> The naive voting process creates a Prisoner’s Dilemma whereby each individual voter has incentive to vote for themselves at the expense of the larger community goal. If every voter defects by voting for themselves then no currency will end up distributed and the currency as a whole will fail to gain network effect. On the other hand, if only one voter defects then that voter would win undeserved profits while having minimal effect on the overall value of the currency.

> **In order to realign incentives and discourage individuals from simply voting for themselves, money must be distributed in a nonlinear manner.** For example a quadratic function in votes, i.e., someone with twice the votes of someone else should receive four times the payout and someone with three times the votes should receive nine times the payout. In other words, the reward is proportional to votes^2 rather than votes. This mirrors the value of network effect which grows with n^2 the number of participants, according to Metcalfe’s Law.

> Assuming all users have equal stake, someone who only receives their own vote will receive much less than someone who receives votes from 100 different users. This encourages users to cooperate to vote for the same things to maximize the payout. This system also creates financial incentive to collude where everyone votes on one thing and then divides the reward equally among themselves.

I am really tempted but the steempower drains so fast. I think people don't know that yet. Some already drained their power. Truly with great power comes great responsibility

I am minnow, so i just enjoy the party. Hope it is going to be great for everyone.

Question is, can I get more than my own vote by commenting and voting on another blog?  If answer equals maybe, then I'll be going for that approach (still)

good news @neoxian

I think in the beginning people will vote themselves some money, it gives them a confidence boost. I hope as time goes on however they realize it still benefits them to vote for other peoples as well. That being said I am totally upvoting this comment along with your post ;)

Pretty darn tempted!  After 10 months of grinding and not really getting much if my payouts are any reflection of how things are going to be now then this is how I feel!  
https://media.giphy.com/media/bGtO3RlAPHkeQ/giphy.gif

I am not to tempted I turned my voting power down to 10% after I realized 100% equals 1.80 at 90% power.

Quite tempted to very tempted despite the fact that might vote is still quite miniscule. But I'm actually happier that I can spread some value around as before the hardfork my votes were basically worthless (below 1 cent). Now I'm up all the way to 3 cents I think. Mayble I'll be capable of a few 4 cent votes when fully regenerated :P I think I'll actually be looking at my votes with a bit more responsibility and care now as they finally have some value.

I think the biggest implication of this hardfork is that it makes it possible for newcommers to make some Steem even with a very small following and attention. In the past the exponential curve was keeping those very low and now they have been dragged significantly higher.

Here are my personal stats of the only 3 posts last week just before and just after the update (I got no additional votes between the two screenshots) and my total earnings from them are up over 800%:

![before hardfork.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNU5Nbh65dgtjTbe4HVPjiEqku8ygz42aXKmnsguoNb9s/before%20hardfork.png)