Hard Fork 20 Changes
Hard fork 20 is changing the way the reverse auction works and cutting the first 30 minutes of a vote down to 15 minutes. If you vote in the first 15 minutes, instead of it going to the author, it will be returned to the reward pool. This will remove some of the self-voting, at least the early self-voting.
This will not fix a thing
But It will make the Reward Pool Mining Bot Farms more profitable. Bernie wins again yay
This bugs me as well. I think the current system is broken and this will make it worse. At the moment I go to the new posts feed and scroll through till I find something I like. Then I have to wait 20 mins before I can vote on it. If Steemit wants to encourage curation then it needs to make it easier to curate. At the moment it feels like you need a spreadsheet to do the maths every time you upvote.