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RE: HF 19- A few thoughts now the euphoria is dying down some
I was also shocked how much value my votes went up too. Not nearly as high as yours but I was pleasantly surprised. However, yeah, views are down, so I'm concerned about long term prospects here. Really hope that articles written aren't going to end up in the dark side of the ether for the sake of some more power in voting.
Agreed, we mustn't accept short term gratification at the expense of Steemit's long term sustainability. Or, to put it another way, don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. I think new users don't have access to the vote power slider, right? I'm pretty sure there's some minimum Steem Power you need to have to get that slider. But it might help if everyone had access to that so that even little accounts could still choose to vote often if desired.
Yeah the vote slider doesn't appear until you have some level of STEEM Power. Mine started to appear when I deposited some of my accrued STEEM into STEEM POWER. My guess is that those with very little STEEM POWER don't have enough to make an impact as is, so providing a smaller percentage using a Vote Slider would actually make no difference.
I also noticed that the Trending section is becoming far more concentrated with the much larger players. That is unfortunate for those trying to get noticed with good content, but without the influence to do so. Crossing fingers here that things improve
Some of the people at the top of trending deserve to be there, they work hard and produce excellent content / services so I don't begrudge them their due. But yeah, it definitely would be good to see more new faces making it on there from time to time.