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RE: Please do NOT think my lack of replies stem from a lack of interest; I am actually dying from a lack of RC, and I am unable to reply!
I was experiencing a similar problem a few days ago, but someone other than me cleared up the issue for me. So I suppose you should be up a running in a few days...but then again all you can do is wait ;)
It is slow recovery, but I do NOT see how anyone can start a new account now. Since this was supposed to enhance enrolment I don't see it even staying even! This was badly thought out, at best!
>:(I am trying to figure out what they were trying to improve...I feel sort of like they were wanting to run faster, so to reduce weight they cut off there leg?
Remove the Leg...or Head; I Can't understand what they were thinking. OR if they were thinking at all!
>:(I do not feel that the decision helps to foster an inviting atmosphere, yesterday I was able to send one reply...then I ran out of lunch money :)
@cantaintj I understand, it is hard working around low RC values. Steemit Needs to step in and Help new accounts with direct SBD or with boosted RC values! This is process critical, and needs to be taken care of Today!
>:(Hey, @captaintj.
Main issue is high use low SP accounts still don't have enough juice even with the 10 x booster patch that went in effect late Friday last week (I think that's what you're referring to). It's significantly better, but for those who are commenting quite a bit as well as posting fairly frequently, along with upvoting, it's still going to be an issue.
Hey, @glenalbrethsen
I did not fully understand why they said I used to not be able to post (I think they said I was low on something) in my mind if I was not low before, and I was not doing nothing diffrent,,,then I proably did not break anything!
So, before the hard fork that took place last week, the ability to do anything was based on bandwidth, which they handed out to start with, basically, and eventually people were able to earn enough Steem Power to have enough bandwidth available to do what they wanted to do.
With the hard fork, they got rid of bandwidth and changed to resource credits, which is based on Steem Power (SP), more or less. That means the more SP you have, the more you can do. Right now, it appears that somewhere north of 500 SP will work in many cases, unless you're a super user, and then you might have some trouble.
The hard fork made it impossible for most of us to transact because the recourse credits went to 0% and recharged from there. Once people had a percentage of their resources credits, they were able to function on a very limited basis, but that was mainly higher SP accounts.
Then, on Friday evening, a patch that basically makes the cost of doing things here 90% less than what they should be went into effect, and will continue for a while. How long depends on when they decide they have a viable solution, I think. They haven't quite come out with how this is all going to be resolved yet, other than some form of subsidizing will take place.
You didn't do anything, no one did, other than Steemit Inc and the witnesses. The rest of us are just bystanders in the whole deal.
Why do you think they decided to 'fix' the system? Does SP recharge (like a boxer arms recharge when he takes a break from swinging) I assume that current users on steemit are collateral damage (like high SP users are on a seesaw, Steemit Inc meant to improve the steemit platform but high sp users are harmed by unattended consequences.) Also why is it called a 'hard fork'?
With blockchains, updates to the system are called hard forks because it causes a split, or a new fork of the blockchain to take place. I guess it would be similar to changing from one car to the next while you're headed down the freeway. You're still going forward, but now you're in a different car as you do it. Hopefully, it's a newer, nicer, better performing vehicle. :)
I'm afraid I don't know all the reasons, or even the real reason. The official reason for the change to resource credits (RCs), which is only one change that took place, but the one causing the most grief currently, was to better gauge the costs of transactions on the blockchain and more fairly distribute those costs among the user base.
Everything we do has a cost to it, and they've been basically subsidized up until now. My guess is, Steemit Inc. doesn't want to continue doing that without some kind of collateral, ie, the users' SP. I'm not so sure how that all is supposed to work, but apparently the system has been looking at the cost loads of doing different things and is settling on what those costs are.
SP doesn't recharge. It's the RCs that do. SP is STEEM you have powered up in your account. It's what you've used to determine your percentage of control over the rewards pool (through the upvote amounts you can give). You can either power up more and increase it, or you can power down and then do whatever you like with the STEEM.
RCs, however, are like Voting Power. Depending on how much you do with it, can take seconds, minutes, hours or days to recharge. It depends on how much of it you have (based on SP), and what the cost is of those things you're doing. Comments and posts cost the most, powering up and other like transactions cost the least. Upvotes are somewhere in between.
You could certainly say there are accounts that are currently collateral damage in this change. High SP hasn't been affected. I'm not sure if they've ever been affected by anything, other than to improve their lot. Or so it seems. Other than to complain on behalf of lower SP accounts, I haven't read anything from a high SP account where the situation has been hampered.
I don't really consider myself high SP—I'm a large minnow—but I feel like I'm in a good place based on where we are at now, and even if they were to remove the patch. My account as is replenishes fast enough at the normal rate. I'd say the same holds true for any account that holds 2,000 SP on up. Below that, it will depend on how much everyone does.