By the metric that SHOULD matter (reputation score,) I am in the top 1/10 of one percent of Steemians, but what the hardforkers at Steemit, Inc. just did will not help me-- or other content providers like me-- AT ALL. In fact, it will be as though I just dropped to a 40 reputation score with practically no steem power at all. AND...the serial downvoters have just been promoted to KINGS OF THE PLANTATION here with, now, not so much as any cost AT ALL against their accounts for their censorship of conservatives, patriots, and Christians.
Anyone with less than 20,000-100,000 SP (and/or who doesn't use bid bots and other gimmicks) is going to have a very, very hard time getting to the $20 per post where/when your vote for them will actually amount to any real curation reward for you, or any real upvote payout added to their posts.
Only whales and big dolphins routinely get $20 or more per post, even if (usually) the content is crap. No one is going to bother, now, trying to curate little fish because their votes on people with small SP caches will not amount to anything, and will be viewed as being a "waste" by potential curators.
Also though, tragically and comically, THE RICH WILL NOT GET RICHER, as intended...i.e. further consolidation of the rewards into the hands of bigger and bigger fish at the expense of newbies and minnows will not even happen. The potential base of smaller upvoters is going to be thoroughly devastated.
Hard Fork 21 is the KNIFE THROUGH THE HEART of the golden goose that the "haves" here thought they could squeeze forever.
Hard Fork 21 is a HUGE disincentive to newbies and minnows, and especially to REAL CONTENT providers.
Get ready for the STEEM price to sag by another 50% in short order...(a few months, or less)...and for this platform to become even more of a wasteland than it is today.
Congratulations Steemit Inc. You just ruined one of the best potential people/masses-friendly innovations of the past half decade, and forever proved you are just like the globalists/elitists you pretend (at least some of you) to eschew.