We decided to make the decrease to 0.50x multiplier last over the same time period as originally proposed for decrease to 0x. That means we are doing 0.05x per week decrease every week instead of 0.10x. We are only a few weeks into it so it hasn't moved very far yet.

We don't intend to make any changes to delegation right now. Delegation for rewards is still a widely accepted practice on Steem (and one that we think is overall postivie for Steem).

Sometimes though it's just lazy people trying to make as much profit on their crap as they can.

I have at various points put a lot of thought into adding quality score elements to the upvoting system, but additional complication has to 100% be worth the development cost and the extra difficulty in helping people understand it. In this case, we think that trusting the 'wisdom of the crowd', while backstopping that with active blacklists is a much more simple process and works almost as well.

The issues we have seen lately are that long-time Steemians that have done a lot of good for their communities (and built up quite a high SBI level in the process) have entered a negative sentiment stage because of more recent developments in Steem. As such, these members have had dramatic collapse in their content quality but nobody is bothering to report them to us.

We are happy to investigate any reports received, and we even have a channel in our Discord specifically for reporting low quality posts that have SBI votes on them (especially spam/fraud/plagiarism which are explicitly identified as abusive in our FAQ).