As a proud user of chainbb, i completely understand your point of view. In general, im curious to see what path steemit will follow, is it going to be a forum type, where people will 'have' to read the post ? One good thing is that it would direct the user towards reading a post and then upvoting it, which would ensure (at least on a higher level) that the content is good (and not for example just selfie pictures).

However, it could also take a complete facebook/instagram path,  where random voting could cause a flood. Now, if everyone gets paid , even without decent content or without reading, it should be fine 'in theory', but im a little sceptical how this can be kept in the future.

P.S

the other steem clients, i assume thy have different developers? Or the same ones but have different functionalities?

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  * [thank you for the bonuses cryptoctopus ^_^](https://steemit.com/@alphacore) 
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Decreased the view the distribution will be less, and who is a beginner maybe this did not help much.

Rewards are looking absolutely INSANE right now! Even a comment of mine from two days ago shot up in value... not that I'd complain tho xD

Glad to see you are powering up and helping the community out.
Thank you!

For a moment I thought something has gone awry with my account.
But a bigger voting power is definitely a good thing for those who are active in Steem.

"*I am now going to discontinued my auto-voting on chainbb as my voting % as been exhausted for a long time and my curation rewards took a hit (reduced by almost 90%). The experiment ran for almost  3 weeks.*"

@cryptoctopus - you are a real champ for keeping it up as long as you did.  I actually forgot about this, as I had initially assumed that you would only keep going for about a week MAX, so yeah, **thanks!**

I think introducing people to the benefits of a bulletin board interface for layout of the content is reward enough in and of itself to keep people in, once they've experienced it.  But I have no idea how to best explain this, or put the concept in people's faces for their review - I've never been much of a salesperson.  But I truly do believe that if everyone on steemit.com tried chainBB at least once, they would get as hooked on using it as I am.  Specifically, because of the improved experience of searching for content via forums of interest, versus a feed whose rush of articles you can't always keep up with.

Thank you all. I am here for upvote.

I'll try to use ChainBB from time to time. I like the comments interface! Thank you for your support and upvotes. I am sure you helped a lot of people!

I sent the news about the project and mentioned you in my last post! Cheers!

I'm a newbie, so my voting will be for the posts that give me a warm and fuzzy.

But I do see where you are going with this, nut as I said earlier to another bloke, improvize, overcome and adapt. That is the only way to keep moving forwards.

PS. The piece of advice was my dads, I just wrote/typed it.

Cheers.

i like crappy and shitty comments to read ..
Cool post by the way keep posting Bro

My upvotes only gives 3c on this moment and would love to see the power of your upvote. I wish i came across steemit months ago.... but glad i was told about these opportunities.

Hi @cryptoctopus! I believe in what your mission. I made my first post on ChainBB today. The interface is nice and I like how posts are arranged by topic. As a minnow that had a 0.0 to 0.01 value per vote pre HF19, I now have .09 per vote if  the power is maxed. With the HF, I'm encouraged to put in money as I have with my mining  activities. We're on a blockchain anyway, it just makes sense to put in a stake in this community and not just expect to take.

I'm a new user here and I'm excited about this change. My upvote is only .01 but got to start somewhere. I think this will be good for newbies like me and people that don't have a big following. Keep up the great posts!

I have about 100 steem power and give $0.10 on full charge.. So that's potentially about $2 a day from a $200 account.

Where is this all coming from? I thought it was a fixed amount of steem through rewards each day... Whereas everyone seems to have massively increased?

Houston, we're ready for lift-off.

http://elementarium.cpn.rs/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_04-04-1983.jpeg

With all these crazy payouts, is this sustainable?

Great read. Follow me for the latest tech headlines from my paid subscription to the Wall Street Journal.

My vote currently holds $1.04 at 100% power, this is up from $0.4 before. Quite the increase. I am also very excited for the coming days on steemit and will check out chainBB after this. I have heard of the platform before but not looked into it. Is it similar to eSteem? Or are they different ideas?

@cryptoctopus
My voting power was depleted because of you :)))

I followed your suit and was posting through ChainBB mostly AND followed your trail on Streemian.

That resulted in my VP being around 26%. Id switched off the trail and he percentage is slowly recovering. 

Correction - was slowly recovering. It is at 25% now.

I guess the new rules are the cause. 

# I am not complaining :)

Because my vote, as it is now, is worth ..

# $1.14

Even with VP at 25%

I totally agree...

Congratulations @cryptoctopus
You took 20 place in my [Top 100](https://steemit.com/statistics/@exan/top-100-posts-with-maximum-payout-2017-06-27) of posts

sir @cryptoctopus and @jesta does this mean the paid beta testing is over? :( sad for me.