@sircork - It is true that HF19 showed a big increase in pending payouts that existed when the HF19 hit us. Thereafter, there has been a general decline. I do not have sufficient monetisation of my blogs yet to get hit too hard but I have observed the phenomenon. Perhaps it is because 1) Steemians are cautious and have overcorrected to avoid upvoting huge amounts 2) Steem price has gone south a bit in last few days (as have prices of all other cryptos in general). This may be affecting pending payouts too. 3) There is a huge increase on amount of posts. So there is less to go around in terms of Steem available each day.
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I have posted an outlook on burden of life with my original pictures. I request you to take a look when you have time. Your views, experiences and comments on the subject would be very welcome. Thanks
My votes doubled in value, and I do monitor using them slightly closer, but not much. I use them when I do, and when they lose value, oh well. Which may be what other people do too, so that my usual voters who actually have higher value votes, already used ten before my post and end up giving me less than before the fork when their little bit went further into the reading day. Hmmm.