Sort:  

wow there goes my reason for having bought a lot of steem pwer and to be able to profit from my curation rewards !! I am not really a writer but i love reading the stuff. This gives me little reason if i can read but no longer vote after five votes !! Tell me this is not happening.?? Was not informed at all of this !!

I think you just were informed by this post :) I agree, it is frustrating.

Ok well i have returned to say what my reaction to the new control on curation power to each vote after my day of curation voting . ! i love it !!!! You decide now on each vote what pressure in Steem power you wish to hand over as opposed to the steady more linear decline in voting power of before. For say a comment I can choose to give say 15 or 20 percent depending on my reasoning, reasoning being the key word here !! For the posts where there maybe be hopefully much more input and work iinvolved i can updose to say 50 or 60 percent vote when major but perhaps a smaller reward to a new user that shows say more promise but not quite to the top of their art !! So all in all I am convinced this new pressure dial on my Steem station of curation is a great improvement actually and in many ways by carefully reasoned decisions which are say more heart attached i can spread the love in a more dosed and effective way now !!And here i make a two percent vote to myself to help push my comment up to a more visible spot hopefully of the author. Can be useful no ?? So all cool by me !! Great work developers of Steemit !! Steem Up and On !!

The dev have been really quick to revert the payout from 12h back to 24 hours so I don't see any reasons why it would be different with this change if they notice an negative effect from this change.

I'd say let's see. I agree that 40 is way too much right now. I was able to do 40 semi-meaningful votes per day when steemwatch was up but now I'm not even trying even if I could use other tools to achieve similar results.

Why start with such a drastic change? Why not cut it in half to start and see if there is a positive effect? Deincentivizing engagement on the platform is not a good way to handle bots.

I think too often with steemit the users are tossed out with the bathwater in an effort to curb bots.

Edit: Here is my full post on the 5 votes https://steemit.com/steemit/@contentjunkie/5-votes-is-not-enough

Yes, that's absurd idea is limited our votes by 5 votes. This is not democracy economic anymore. That's okay, we have limited vote but....... for 5 votes...... Good bye steemit. :)