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Because it’s an almost direct comparison to the upvu situation. When most people joined there were no fees to pay for posting and commenting but because spam hit a crazy level and other chains tried to just over spam the site they added fees to the system to make it more enjoyable for users. Most ppl supported that move. Adding in something like ‘you can’t delegate to higher stake holders’ is also something that could make the site more enjoyable for those on it. Since upvu type services could become a big problem. Now I am just a small user expressing an opinion but in my opinion adding fees is no different to changing the platform to not be able to delegate to higher stake users.

My understanding (I had to wait for the chain to be fixed after the spam attack) is there were always fees, but there was a loophole allowing witnesses to post with no fees. That the attacker (I strongly suspect the Bernie account) used this loophole to spam with no fees his genitalia pictures using his bots to overwhelm the chain.