5 or 15 minutes is irrelevant for manual voting as you are unlikely to even see a post in that time, let alone read it. We need some system that gives less advantage to auto-votes. I am not against people using them, but they do not get rewards where they are earned with good content. I get some votes on my posts within seconds, so those people do not seem to care about curation rewards. My voting is mostly manual as I can use up my VP easily on comments and the posts I enjoy.
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You don't fall in with the many @steevc. I would like to know from someone who has been here forever, just why the window was invented and the reasons for it. I can't think of any advantage of it's existence.
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It was originally invented to incentivise manual curation. It was envisaged that hundreds or thousands of engaged users would be finding good posts and those that voted early got bigger curation rewards when the larger accounts voted after. It gamified it also.
Then they changed it down to 5 and after that I didn't have a clue wat it was for.
Hundreds or thousands, now that is a dream I would love to be realised! Yes, I remember 30 mins, everyone stayed away until 30 minutes and 1 second.
It was kinda ridiculous, the tense wait till that time to see if you actually got any votes. ha
I think the genesis was to slow the 6.5 day cherry picking votes that was a thing when I came round.