That's fine, and incentivizes casual curators. As long as this does not also penalize regular curators who really keep the site organized.

That doubletalk (akin to the spin used by marketers who prefer to give a 'discount' to some customers instead of charging the rest extra). Influence is absolutely the most zero-sum thing in the entire system. If you give more influence to some, it means less to others.

sure hope this is not HF15 and target votes changed to 5.

In fact that is exactly what is being proposed. They're using different words to try to spin it.