Right now 5 minutes just encourages people to vote quickly and then read in fear of missing out on the best rewards.
Yep ,it heavily favors the bots too.
In regards to your second part, that would be good, but it isn't the responsibility of the Hive blockchain, it is connected to the scot bot of H-E. I am not sure what their plans are for it, but after a couple years, it seems that no one is interested in refining the voting mechanisms for secondary tokens.
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