Hi @jaki01 😁,

I agree with you on that the timeframe of 5 min should be extended to 10 min at least.

curation rewards depend only on the own vote weight (HP, percentage of the vote).

I don't agree on it. In my point of view, that means less efforts for voters, they will be upvoting only the posts of their friends since no extra rewards to upvote others or to discover content. I also like the idea to penalize the curators if they upvote more than 1 post per day per author or more than 5 posts per week per author (give less curation rewards). I know some spammers that are being upvoted more than 10 times per week by the same whale. Remove the selfvoting is a nice temporary try, because eventually people will create an alternative account and delegate their stake and continue selfvoting.

@Mahdiyari (the hive.vote provider) should stop his service, we will have less jerky circles like @backscractchers or @honeybee. At least it will be more difficult to set up jerk circles. As well, developers should obfuscate the code to avoid people follow trails and set up fanbases. Consequently, more people will be aware of their investment and upvote manually. The fact is that, high stakeholders will need to pay for manual curators like me or delegate their stake to the bidbots 😃.

Convergent linear curve for author rewards

It's ok to avoid spam and promote investments.

Going back to 75 % author and 25 % curation rewards.

Nope. A lot of content creators are using likwid or reward.app to liquefy rewards. The powerdown journey of 13 weeks is nice for the platform and for our security.