I agree with you completely on your last 2 paragraphs and have very much been on that side the whole time... And I still am. And frankly the problem is that everyone got fat and happy early and now we have a distribution problem... 90% resides at the very top...

But this particular issue I think they did do the right thing. I was where you were a week ago. It took me many conversations with Carl to get to the point where I get the point. While the money is going away from the post, it is only money that is artificially created by and large... (ie bots or ALT votes).... And so it is disincintivizing early votes by that class.

While I myself have also found that loophole, there is no way that I could ever have expected to catch up to the big boys that could do it with far more money and far more efficiently than me.

I think you will be surprised, but I certainly agree with you about there still being a major gap and an general lack of understanding of how to build a community. I am by no means a fan of management. I simply think this HF 20 isn't the problem at all.