@ned here's what I don't get.
If I understand it right, at the moment whales and others can vote 40 times at full or nearly full voting power.
Yet most new authors (like me) go completely unnoticed..
If the amount of votes that can be cast at full power drops to a measly 5, what incentive does a whale (essentially the only way to start breaking through) have, wasting 1 out of 5 precious votes on a nobody?