I never cared about if a post was trending or hot or recent, as long as it made me think, gave good eye candy, or made me laugh, that is when I would vote. I do a lot of blind voting lately, post I intend to read, but well only so many hours in a day.

For me I think because of how and when I vote on a post HF 25 will be a help. Some of the people I follow re-hive/re-blog stuff they found interesting, and then I read it and yes it was interesting. So even if it was 6 or 7 days old I would still give it a vote.

I think part of the lack of post the last week was people scared of the HF effects, this was one of the smoothest HF's, and it had a bonus glitch. I think posting will pick back up.