Hopefully everyone who is at least semi-active on STEEM has heard something about the next hardfork. HF21 is currently in the testing phase, which probably means its adoption is imminent. This is the fork that will include the STEEM Proposal System (SPS) and the Economic Improvement Proposal (or EIP).

Both are happening because proponents claim they will bring much needed development and/or reform to STEEM, and thus will lead to a better STEEM experience and take STEEM to more prominence and higher values.

For the purpose of this post, I'd like to focus on the EIP rather than the SPS, since there seems to be more argument over whether the EIP will have some positive effect. And I'd like to do it from the aspect of human behavior, since the EIP is meant to change the current ways some users do things (the emphasis seems to be on higher SP).

So, regardless of how much SP you have, I want everyone to put yourself in the higher SP shoes. By higher SP, I mean you have orca-sized SP, or close to it, so you could leave a $1 upvote at 100% weight and voting power.

(Just a little over 425 accounts currently have the ability to hand out $1 or higher upvotes).

If you have that much SP already, or magically had access to it, what would you do? With the EIP in place, would you keep upvoting the way you do now, or would you upvote differently, especially since it could mean a significant increase through curation?

Would you stop/start delegations to bidbots? Would you stop/start self-voting? Would you stop/start spreading your upvotes out as much as you could, or would you stop/start autovoting?

The idea here is to try to see if there's anything in a 50/50 split, convergent linear curve and some free downvotes that would change the way you do things if you had that kind of upvote.

The following poll is in two parts. First, please choose yes, no or I'd change some things, depending on whether you would change some or all of your current upvoting/curation behavior, and then choose among as many of the remaining options as you feel describe what you would do.

FIRST PART—Would You Change Your Behavior? Answers: Yes, No, I'd change some things, but keep others the same.

SECOND PART—What Would You Change/Do The Same? The rest of the list.

As always, I appreciate your participation.

Image source—Pixabay

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SAME—Not delegate to bidbots (20.51%) 8 / 39 No, I wouldn't change (15.38%) 6 / 39 I'd change some things, but keep others the same (12.82%) 5 / 39 SAME—Not self-upvote (10.26%) 4 / 39 KEEP—Keep varying my upvote weight based on content (10.26%) 4 / 39 SAME—Not Autovote (7.69%) 3 / 39 Other (please specify) (7.69%) 3 / 39 SAME—Autovote (5.13%) 2 / 39 SAME—Self-upvote (2.56%) 1 / 39 CHANGE—Start autovoting (2.56%) 1 / 39 KEEP—Spreading my upvotes out uniformly (2.56%) 1 / 39 START—Varying my upvote weight based on content (2.56%) 1 / 39