I hope that the other voting services follow your lead with point 1.

I can think of a few authors worth considering and the short list of people that I follow is good. remaps and moecki are doing some interesting dev. work. o1eh is an author that I like, as is kiwiscanfly. Maybe the winners of the Steemit best author awards would be worth considering too.

If anybody nominates themselves, they should be blacklisted 😉

!thumbup (the bum)