Just a few more days of the poor tax going to the trending page. We are having a membership drive in these discords, tell your friends. If you want a voice in the consensus join them, and be one.

The convergent curve was a mechanic implemented in Steem's EIP (economic incentive proposal) Hardfork 21. I was super upset about even the announcement that this was happening, and you can find me crying

Orca achieved and where I'd like to go from here.

There have been a lot of posts over the past year talking about various ideas and proposals for the next hardfork. We seem to be getting close to a point where the changes for the next HF are relatively

With Hard fork 21, downvoting has its own bandwidth now. I hate to see my VP sit at 100% but I was lucky to find a group of Steem users working together, minnows, dolphins, orcas and a few whales using

Why are posts with bid-bot upvotes downvoted in the Steem community? Because nearly all Steem front ends afford the greatest visibility to the most highly rewarded posts. Imagine for a moment that you

image source now many users decide to quit. all have different points of view on the platform. and many today users complain with hf21. What do you think. Is it because hf21 causes many users to stop?

The Economic *Improvement* Proposal (EIP) from HF21 had three parts: 1) a superlinear reward curve *converging* to linear after enough SP voting for a post 2) a 50/50% reward split between author and curators 3) a free downvote pool allowing 2.5 free downvotes per day I'll focus on the latter. Before and even after the introduction of the free downvote pool, I had plenty concerns about it (as I had about all three points actually), but I said I'll think about if I'll use my free downvotes or not after all. It turns out that till this day I abstained from using them because I don't want to be dragged in the negativity surrounding the exchanges of flags, even if occasionally I disagree with some content from various points of view (like tag abuse, for example). I made [my position clear about this continuous war](https://steempeak.com/flag-wars/@gadrian/is-there-a-way-for-us-not-to-get-sucked-into-the-new-flag-war) some time ago, and nothing changed to make me feel otherwise. I am wondering if you use your daily downvotes. And if you feel like explaining further, then what motivates you?

When it comes to the downvote that almost takes his earnings to zero it goes too far. You guys who make such a big downvote don't bother to understand what the individual steemians have done over time

The HF2100 Weapon System (TM) is available, NOW! You've already seen it in action around the Steem blockchain lately: Piles of grayed out comments, regular people with negative reputation, members leaving

# Greetings steemians!  [Image soucer](https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/09/02/07/37/social-2706553_960_720.png) My [last post](https://steempeak.com/dpoll/@akdx/are-you-getting-downvote-from-some-mischievous-accounts-on-your-posts) was about some mischievous accounts (which might be bots) that are continuously downvoting sincere users' posts on Steem. This is really annoying. But, what has given them the power to do so? Is it not the result of separate downvote pool which was introduced after HF21 in which downvoters were given free hand to do whatever they like? Friends, what is your opinion on this matter?

Is it because they think I earn too much or is there something wrong with my post. Or does it have something to do with those who vote on my post. here is my post which they gave me 100% downvote on Digital

Today I was walking to México Libre , this opportunity u can share photos fom it's interior. In the photo you can see the main door located in the courtyard. In this image you can see the magnificent entrance

Recibe beneficios, incluso económicos, por practicar tu deporte. By José Antonio Apipilhuasco. Source: Practica un deporte y obtén al mismo tiempo los beneficios económicos de la cadena de Bloques. Salud,

Entry #1 for the Memeday contest

Today I Took a walk in the Histórico Center of México City. I visited The Library of México founded in 1941 in the Citadel. That library is now located in an ancient viceregal palace, wich was initially

Some people on the blockchain make it their business to get into your business. I call them the reward poolice or the reward reavers. These fine folks will go around with their noses up in the air and

Chest Day Training. Routine: Bench press. One arm pec fly. Incline dumbells fly. Horizontal bench press machine. Flat dumbell bench press. Pull over. Incline one arm press machine. Incline dumbbell press.

All is in the matter of perception if you ask me. I know loads of people are feeling demotivated because of the small amount of author rewards they are receiving. And that is where you have to think

In the past couple hours, STEEM's value against Bitcoin (in other words, it's purchasing power) plunged to a new all-time low. (3.5 year logarithmic chart) STEEM was worth 0.0015 BTC on opening day and