Back to people feeling more important than others :p. Just a joke. Good job steemit with the fix :). It looks like payouts are lower, I think this is because it needs time to build up the reward pool. 
https://s16.postimg.org/3rxqk4fw5/fixed-1714368_1280.jpg
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