Since I made that post this morning a number of people have told me they will not longer be upvoting comments. In order to get mine past the dust threshold I'd have to upvote comments at >70% which would severly reduce the number of upotes I give.

I'm hoping that someone more knowledgeable than me will do the stats and post about it and include what they've discovered about timings too.

My best guess is that engagement will drop and more people will leave.