When i first joined steemit the voting system seemed to be totally different. I would never get much for my posts but comments i always did well on. I would regularly get $2.50 or $5 upvotes on my longer comments. I once remember getting a $67 upvote. Then HF19 happened and everything went down hill from then. People went from 40 votes a day to 10 and the voting seemed to just drift away. That seemed to initiate the rise of the voting bots and the rest is history.
Change isn't always for the better