Hardfork 17 will be a very exciting improvement for Steem. Among the expected changes will be a flatter rewards curve and a greater share of rewards going to comments. With the comment rewards and the removal of nesting limits on comment trees, it makes sense to focus now on building communities for Steemit. Even before additional community features arrive on the site (later this year), we must focus on supporting engaging posts and comment discussions.
I’d like to thank @ned for establishing Steem Guild by sharing his voting power to support a broad array of diverse content on the site these last few months. And thanks to other accountholders who have shared their voting power as well. Thanks so much to the authors we have helped support and to the staff members for their tireless work.
In anticipation of the coming hardfork, Steem Guild will be decentralizing its model and moving away from the fixed list of authors that it has supported. You will notice some changes in voting soon. This project has been a bridge to the future and that future is arriving in these coming weeks.
Steem Guild’s future involves building communities and helping to add a massive number of new users to Steemit in 2017.
Authors: If you are producing engaging content on the site and stimulating robust discussion with your posts, we will do our best to find you and to help recognize your posts and comments. We won’t be covering all of your posts anymore, but there are other great curators on Steemit now also. This community is ready to find and reward the best content.
For all accountholders who are ready to launch Steemit to a whole new level, let’s work together to make this site a million times bigger. Steem Guild will be a much leaner and more decentralized curation project going forward, operated by experienced curators who will each vote separate accounts. We will continue voting any current accounts who wish to continue putting your voting power to the best use. And we will welcome new accountholders who wish to delegate voting power with Hardfork 17.