Something bad will not happen? It is easy to read what they plan, so this comment goes to prove that most people do not read anything that is outside a narrow band of interest. I mean, everytime you make a post, you are taken to a new posts feed, where the posts from those running steemit are posted on the right side of the page.

My main complaint is that the decisions are being made by those with big accounts, who see everyone here as a waste of steem resources - they say so, in a round-about way.

They put forward the argument that authors (authors are those who make posts, even if it is photographs or paintings) are not contributors of any value to the platform, as it is the curators who give value. At most, they are willing to cede that maybe a few posters who post about crypto and blockchain, are of some value.

One of them even said, even should the most talented author or writer of novels, write a masterpiece, if they are paid more than x steem (I cannot recall exact amount, but it was under 50 steem), they would flag them to reduce their earnings drastically, whereas, if someone makes a post on crypto, he would not mind seeing them earn 400 steem.

None of this sounds biased does it? Of course, they realised what they sounded like, so they now promote the idea that we should each be allowed some free downvotes so as to stop scam posts etc, which are killing steemit, (and then they back some really evil dwarfs with huge delegations (one I saw was given 25,000) so that they can flag with impunity - especially anyone who is a patriot, questions the value of vaccinations, is anti-globalism and so on, or even loves his or her own race (if they are not dark-skinned).

That is not bad? Then how about this?

Because we do not deserve what little we earn, they have altered the 25% to curators, so that they are now going to take 50% of whatever you earn....and already some are preparing for the next HF, by claiming 50/50% is wrong, that the poster should only earn 20 and the curator 80%.

• I would say, dream on, if you think it will get better. I have also signed on elsewhere and am thinking of setting all my story posts to DENY payment...so that the f* curators do not earn one cent from me. I would love to see ten thousand posters do the same, but if I hoped for it, I would be the one who is dreaming.