Those using their own scripts for voting are going to do very well placing their votes in this window.  Those using steemauto/steemvoter will have varying results, although not anywhere close to those running their own setup.

# IF 
curators come out of the woodwork to find undervalued content, 1 minute will work well for those quick to see the potential of a post. 

I made the 'if' quite big, not sure if it should be bigger.

As a result of regressive curve 2e12, most of those immediately voting will receive -33%. Generally, I've noticed curation rewards value being 50% to 200% . However now that it's doubled, I guess this means we will see well timed votes get massive curation rewards.
Also the window for voting at the wrong time is so small it is reduced to seconds.
Combined with SPS, this is now a ststem so blatently in favor of popular witnesses, whales and developers. No kidding they just agreed to all of it and more.

The maths behind getting everything right are now so complex, I imagine anyone behaving human is at such a huge disadvantage. We are going for a fairly simple efficiency equation to something that looks like an unfair question in a computer science class.

No one likes to miss out due to complexity. Under the previous way some who were more clever were able to figure it out and explain well to others how to emulate. Under the new system, the answer is going to be (pay and?) use this bot.

Wven if 100% of whales, allstar devs and top witnesses have best interests in mind and aren't selfish, I can see their enthusiasm and experience for this tech cloud their judgement and not realize the complexity of the changes now taking place.

Experts and enthusiasts are doing the testing (pr pretending they understand) and say it's all good. What about the non-experts?

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Most new people using this system were getting pretty screwed.  They see a post, upvote it, and don't even know they are losing a bunch of their curation rewards.  The rule was really made for back when we had exponetial rewards and the same 10 authors were the only ones making anything.  So, getting on the post first really mattered.  Here it's not as important since the change to linear rewards.  To me new users are losing curation rewards as the con, and there's really no more pro since the change to linear.  It's an easy decision to include for me.

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I don't know how many people remember @grumpycat, and his trying to show people what a bad actor could do with self votes. If a person wants to give themselves a really big payday under the 1 minute rule it will be easy to do. Very easy in fact. Make a post, self vote it, make 9 place holder comments like gumpycat did, then on day 7 at the last possible minute up vote your own comments. 10 100% votes, you may lose a tad bit of curation on the original post if others voted your post, but the 9 comments at the last minute no problem all yours. So if you have a $10.00 100% vote value you could potentially have a $100 dollar payday. This would work for little people also, as log as their vote was above the dust vote threshold, they could grow their accounts with out any assistance from anyone at all. 

Do away with the Self Vote rule and above problem will never happen.

I've long been a proponent of this change and I'm very glad to see it finally implemented. I originally proposed setting it at 5 minutes about a year or two ago, but at the time it was instead reduced from 30 to 15 minutes as a compromise of some kind. But even 15 minutes was too much, IMO, because I think many voters weren't aware of it or didn't have the patience to wait that long before voting on a "hot" post, so they wound up losing curation rewards for no good reason.

Shortened voting window and modified rewards curve sounds like beneficial changes to me.
Too bad we will be having a hard time attributing effects because of the multitude of changes at once. I hope we will have regular forks with singular changes in the future.

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At this point, why not. it gives more chance to find a good gem under 1 minute.

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I think it's a good idea.  People shouldn't have to play a little game just to figure out when they should upvote a post they like.

The reason it changed to one minute was to stop the bots winning every single vote race.

What's changed? Oh yes that's it, most of the top witnesses own bots!

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This is a good change in all honesty. That means those who skim new posts and move on to other content will probably leave a vote. However, with the way things are going it seems the Hard fork is prioritising curators more than the authors. The 50/50 split is my biggest concern. If that goes through I can guarantee low earners who make up the largest part of this community will vanish.

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<b>This is GREAT news.... </b>
<sub>...for witnesses, whales, insiders, staff, and bots.</sub>
It takes from the 'have-nots' to enrich the 'haves'. It's another nail in the coffin of this community.

I have a feeling this is going to be either the best hardfork ever or the worst hardfork ever :D
Hoping for the best.

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The vote window has been a major problem for a long time. I have never seen any reason to have it so long. If I see a post and vote it it should only matter what my stake is, not the timeframe in which I vote the post. This hopefully will remove the stupid game of curating and make it more organic. Making a game automatically makes people try to cheat it or maximize it. If everyone is equal across the board then there is more likely to be honest curation.

At least I hope.

so to maximize curation rewards... we should upvote BEFORE we read the content then?!

That's a weird change and to me it honestly just looks like large stakeholders with their auto-voting want to make sure they can stay ahead of the organic curation?!?