After I had written some of these responses, I thought maybe I should let you speak for yourself. Or at least put a disclaimer that I believe I'm representing your argument accurately, but there's a chance I'm not because you're more knowledgeable about the changes. Please correct me if I misconstrued your argument in any responses.
Thanks for the clarifications here. I also thought that we wouldn't see an 8x boost immediately because most people's voting power will likely be close to 100 on the date of the change. For a few days, I think people will be placing a lot of high-slider-percentage votes which will cancel each other out. Several days after the change goes into effect, I think many people's voting power will be well below 100. At that time, it's my guess that a 100%-slider-vote will be worth about 8x what it was.
No, it was fun to show up here after arguing with sigmajin in my own thread, only to discover this thread and find you arguing my side over here as well. :) From what I can tell you've represented my standpoint well.