i feel that it is not a good voting system. I realized that living in a different time zone from United States (where majority of steemit community lives in) puts me at disadvantage on curating. By the time i wake up, washed, bring my toddler to school, my projects, and steemit, the party is over and many votes have already been casted........ =( I feel that it should be about finding good posts that get buried beneath deep but then come to the realization that my vote only add dust to it.... so for what!? In terms of user experience as a curator.....NAH!!!!

It will be interesting to see what happens when more of this site's code gets open sourced since people will be able to adjust different variables around voting power and security in order to see what works best faster.

The voting change kills the joy of the curation game for me. It use to be straight forward. Find early, read, vote and get on with your day.

Now the rules have made voting a convoluted process.

I often catch posts 'early' (I read this post 15 minutes after it was posted). Now I have to engage in an artificial game of deciding do I vote now or wait 15 - 20 minutes? 

Often I will see good posts as they go up.  It's then worse. Do I wait 10-15 minutes before voting or wait 30 minutes? It just feels like a waste of time to have to revisit posts purely for the sake of voting and getting some benefit.

I think the aim to prevent bots benefitting hasn't worked. As I suspected, the bots have been set to vote automatically around 30 minutes after the posts by certain authors go up and very few votes happen in the first 30 minutes. 

It's a double whammy for the genuine curator. Miss out because  to the rules or lose out to the bots.

Hope this gets revisited soon!

I let you know in the slack before but I'll publicly say that I downvoted this because this post was made without knowing the whole correct story, caused confusion, and shouldn't be rewarded for that. Nothing personal.

The voting time and limits need to be explained more. A lot of it is misunderstood.

>I fear the voting time limit, will create an environment where people are just scrambling to vote on posts that are between 10 and 45 minutes old, with everything else being largely ignored. This would kill of a lot of people's enthusiasm for Steem. Especially the ones like me who are asleep at the most active Steem times.

I'm highly skeptical that this is going to be a real problem. My guess is that most people are not interested in voting reward harvesting. There are some, but the question is: should we care?

The most important thing from the perspective of whole system is that *are people going to vote enough?* If most people are voting primarily because they like the content, as they do in every other social media platform, then the new rules are not going to be a problem.