Thank you, this is exactly the type of communication we have been asking for. Keep up the good work!

About the voting change, I can see where everyone is coming from, but I'm afraid regular manual curators are going to be affected. I can tell you there are 30 good posts daily from authors who have joined within the last month alone. Most regular curators are making approximately 50 votes per day now, and this is only going to go up as the network grows. Of course, with this change, regular curators can go to 25% strength and give out the same number of votes. But there's a crucial difference - casual curators will vote with 4x as much influence, effectively crowding out the regular curators from the reward pool. I doubt witnesses or developers are aware of the ground realities of deep curation, so I guess curators will simply take a hit. Some of the lesser known - but some of the very best authors - whom only engaged curators can discover will be left behind.

I have a happy solution though - I hope to see whales and Steemit Inc employees delegate SP to the engaged curators who really keep the site organized. That'll nicely compensate for the 4x reduction in curation capacity.