The argument completely bunk. People's habits are a direct consequence of the rules of the game. If the rules change of course their habits will too, and no we aren't talking about one or two extremes that jack off in the corner by themselves, but the vast majority who develop their strategy directly because of said rules. These are numerous posts, and even more comments, and even more responses to comments. There's no end of material to vote on. It's so much nonsense to claim that changing the rules will not change the way it's played or that it's hard to find content to vote on.

You say "How long before a large account that can  vote at $20.00 for 100% vote, $10.00 for a 50% vote, before his votes are being downvoted?" without indicating if it's honest voting or not, so the question is largely without any meaningful relevance. Let's say you meant that he's honest, and his votes get countered. So what? What is the point, that a large account is fighting against the clock until the inevitable result of his votes being negate? And? What's the point as the question even with relevant context is pointless..

"how long before he decides he has spent enough time trying to find 20 things to vote on and gives up?"

The myth that there's not enough good content for people to vote on. Regardless, let's say that it's true (where do you get the idea for such nonsense though?) so then he self votes, and guess what, he risks getting downvoted. And now what is your point once more?

They must risk it, because that is, exactly how it's supposed to function,  what is, excessive ougt to be negated, as what is abusive.

>I do not like the bid bots, I do not like the vote selling, but the reality is that it is impossible to do away with them. They let the larger accounts be an active part of the steem economy with out sending it back to the days of five cent value per steem.

Nonsense, the point isn't to do away with them, the point is to undermine them, to make it harder for them, not to do away with them. The point if it wasn't clear as it was repeatedly made by the op, is to make it so that people can compete with them. If you don't want to see that point fine, but many people do, many recognize that bidbots don't help, they aren't in any such delusion as 'bidbots let large accounts be an active part of the community', and you really need to stretch the meaning behind the phrase 'active part of the community' to describe delegating to bidbots and raking in the cheating.

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> Ask your self will any of these changes stop you from self voting every now and then just to lower your vote power and have it earn a little bit of steem for you?

You got one affirmative answer in this post, at least on paper. Though it was a 'maybe'.

And nobody is saying it's going to change everything. But the new rules are wired so that they get more if they do more (rather than just being lazy). So there's at least an incentive to shift. That actually goes for bid bots as well.