If people cannot upvote often then what is the point of upvoting at all. I personally will only upvote whatever I find between 9 Am and 10 Am EST. This will allow me to vote for maybe 25 posts, but it will not allow me to have votes for new people on the platform.
Steemit rewards one thing, steemit rewards the number of follows you have. You could easily prove it . . . Have the popular people who publish regular high quality content, have these people names made invisible to their feed follows.
These people upvotes will go from example 99 upvotes down to 6 upvotes. People find their groups and associates via their feed and upvote the steems they like. If I have no useful upvotes for a new person to the platform who has almost no follows that person will not stay on Steemit.
Unless we recognize and reward new users then they will leave quickly and just tell everyone they ever meet how stupid Steemit is. Since voting is worthless why does it even exist if people can do nothing useful with voting ! ! !
I posted about the importance of a recognize button and no one even opened the page : (
Just a tiny minnow small whisper . . .
Thanks, I too mentioned before with the addition of the feed "feature", that would hamstring new users and end the search to expand by following others that you are not exposed to by some other ways... especially when some people here consider links in comments/replies as spam, where is the flow? How do we connect? Where do we get exposure?
Oh the benevolent "money pit" of paying to "promote". The cost to be noticed is too high and requires not buying into Steem Power, limiting investment incentives for the sake of liquidity.
And there is real possibility of loss for content creators as @williambanks mentioned.
I used a formula for 25% votes to upscale my own posts, comments ; 25 % for quality useful , 25% to the follows and 25% for new content . . .
Now with the new changes there is no point in even voting almost ; sorry I cannot upvote your great comment but with one vote per five hours , I cannot risk upvoting and then being unable to vote on some stellar comment in find in 3 hours time . . .
Once I can no longer upvote my feed I am not sure what the use of followers will be since unless I can comment on all my followers posts over time they will simply do some housecleaning and remove me from their feeds.
There must be something I am clearly not understand in these voting changes , so maybe I am missing something ; but if I am you can be sure new people herein will not hang around to work it out if they feel little toward the Steemit platform.
They will leave ! ! !
You comments make sense to me... we will see.