RE: The Snowball Effect on STEEM.
"People need to get over the not fair, attitude and just make stuff for me to consume, to read, to look at to enjoy, and then to vote on and comment on, that is the only fair I am looking for, variety makes fair."
Yup. I mean, I published this 31 minutes ago and I have (so far) potential payouts of $0.61. I saw another post being published before mine and another one about 5-6 minutes after mine. Both of them have potential rewards of about ~$10 at the time I'm writing this. If something, it's unfortunate, but I wouldn't call it unfair.
I was fortunate to receive large upvotes on my previous content and my content can still get upvotes until payout, so even though my potential payouts might not change much, there's still a chance. And, I wouldn't have potential rewards of $0.61 if I had published this on Facebook for instance, so I'm obviously glad that I earn something.
"I know I will return to voting comments when the price recovers, for now patience is all people can have."
We still haven't seen the true results of the latest HardForks so patience is key. I hope we will get back to rewarding comments though. I miss that.
Edit:
During the time I wrote this comment, one of the posts has ~$10 and the other is up to almost $20 in potential rewards. While mine has increased with $0.01.
Patience, they say is a virtue. I think we need to wait til December or early Jan to see the real effects of the HF, just like the last one, time will tell if it was a smart thing or not, but they can always fix issues along the way.
I am glad to see that your post did get hit by some curators, it is always nice to see good well thought out post get recognition.
Yeah, that felt amazing. It was so cool to see my post on top of the hot pages and high up in the trending pages for a while. It's been years since that happened. But, it also proves my point that your potential payout can change even after the "5 minute mark".
That being said, I think you are correct. I think it will take us a couple of months before we can see the real effects. Some people seems to have believed that the price of Steem would moon instantly after HF21, and I can't really understand how they believed that...
It takes time to change things. Especially when Steem has been on what seems to be a never-ending decline for a long period of time. A HF can't change that immediately. That would've been a true miracle.