Hey, @cryptoandcoffee:

I suppose me coming in and saying it shouldn't matter when we vote would not be very helpful to the discussion here, nor the point, right? :)

The problem is, if the masses ever arrive, this system of voting is just going to make the issue of curation worse, or it will have to be changed. The whole thought that I have to calculate precisely when I'm going to vote in order to maximize returns makes it not only annoying, but as you describe, frustrating at the very least, if not flat out impossible for the manual curator.

I strictly manually curate too—which means a lot of reading—and so upvoting before 15 minutes is less likely than me voting after an hour or more. Like now. This was written yesterday, yet here I am. :)

I believe this adjusted time frame will make many more (since plenty already doing so before the hard fork) move to autovoting. For me, while I completely understand the reasoning, is maddening, because ultimately, I don't only want upvotes, but I want engagement, too. That means actual human eyes on the content.

So, anyway. My two cents. For what it's worth. :)