I feel like I've experienced an overall increase, but it seems after the initial excitement, folks are now being much more careful with their voting power as you mentioned. So it seems that my lower limit has gone up but there is more of a ceiling now.

What is that tool you use to check your voting power?

nice articles...thanks for sharing information ..followed..

Oh yes... I was rejoicing when I finally got $2 on one of my post then saw it being reduced to less than a dollar over the days... hahaha... not much compared what you lost but for a minnow, that's a great deal. Jokes aside, I read that this has something to do with steem losing value over usd.

yeah i saw a huge loss of 2,5 k lol with the new stuff! its just is what it is!

After the hardfork people tend to vote less. I think most of them can't adjust their voting power so their voting power drops faster.
So that's the downside.

See now here is the problem. I've been so busy researching cryptos, I really do need to understand more about "voting power". Upvoted for reminding me to look into that........Why do I feel like that was the wrong thing to do? lol

There are obviously pros and cons to HF19 depending on how you look at it and who you are in regards to SP and how much your vote is worth.  I definitely think we need more data to truly understand the impact of HF19 though.

Good point especially the aspect of managing voting power. I think the new update has helped lots of new members have a voic here and thus a win win for all due to increase in signups. 

The number of votes on my posts has gone down.  Now I'm not here bitching.  I just think it's strange that as I gain a larger following, I seem to get fewer votes per post.  I used to be able to get over 100 votes on a post when I had 400 or less followers.  I've reached 800 followers and now get around 30 votes.  What I think  is happening is the community is growing rapidly, therefore posts are harder to notice.  I'll admit that I have some favorite authors who I used to read and upvote daily.  Now that my feed has much more content pouring into it, I see those favorite authors less and less.  I am just riding the ups and downs and hanging in here for the long run.

Yes the recent voting of all steemers has gone down rapidly.

I have noticed a huge decrease in post payouts since the hardfork as well, but in a different way. What I have noticed is that I am getting WAY fewer votes on posts than I used to. Before I would average between 60-90 votes per post, now I am lucky to get 25. Not sure why this is but it is just a new thing for me I guess, at least I am still averaging around $15 per payout which is much more than most. I have noticed as well what I think is the reward pool draining a bit again. My 100% upvote at full power immediately after HF19 and before the whale no voting experiment stopped was worth almost $9. Now I have noticed that my 100% upvote at about 85% power is worth around $3.5-4.00, which I think can be attributed to the reward pool being spread out as well? Either way I agree with you, even if I am making less right now I think that the new direction is an overall good thing for Steemit and the right way to go.

Well, even if our pay drops by 99%, we will still be 100X better than Facebook :D

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mine too !! If people can only up vote 10 times a day at 100% , then most are only voting 1% or 2% so they can up vote more , or they only up voting 10 times , so like me im barely getting any up votes anymore ! It sucks!👍👍👍

Steem is still beta, I think they are still trying to tweak the algoritms to spread as much as possible and avoid the whale concentration

Looks like hf19 was great only 1 day :D

Early days, lets see where this goes.  I think your post about self voting comments was interesting, I notice it more now!

It feels a lot better post HF-19

I wish someone told me about managing my vote power when I started, I had no idea that was a thing. I need to make a video on that. Great post @brianphobos as usual!

Well you got me thinking with that post!

Here is an alternative perspective (mine)

My most recent 10 posts since the hardfork have totalled $362.02 an average of $36.20 each

Meanwhile my 10 last posts before the hardfork only managed $38.29 an average of $3.82 each

So my average payouts have increased by more than 9 times!

What is happening here is that all the money that was going to you is now going to me and I'm loving it.

Soon I will be able to afford a swimming pool too!

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmS2uPLAh51WFeHuGYfLN174Khpi2HdMLGJYXWozNnpTrG/image.png)

Way to break it down... its been around 8 days, I am still trying to find my sweet spot in the power voting :)

all payouts go back to preHF19 levels...

Maybe HF19 means "hefty fiething of 19% of rewards."   :-p