I think 85 might have been too low for you.
I was not arguing with you, I want to clarify that - I was tired when I wrote that so I'm sorry if it came off that way.
One thing I am confused about is the 15 minute thing.. I had read that there is a balance you need to achieve but for exampe voting within the first minute means you split your curation 100% with the author! and it scales off to about 50% at the 15-minute mark, so between 15 minutes and 20 is ideal, UNLESS you are the first to vote and the post ends up with a lot of votes - because the bonus for being the first one to find the 'trending' content gets a boost on curation that can make up for early voting.
For example, the tipu bot won't even vote within the first 15 minutes of your post - and steemauto has a vote delay that defaults to 15 minutes (if enabled)..
I'm still new and barely understand it all to be honest. So much different information and now HF21 come to change it all up again! lol
Hey sorry, I didn't want to come off that way, too :D
I think I'm also not the best person to explain the technicality behind the "voting time window", but @acidyo has published a post regarding the best curation techniques (https://steempeak.com/curation/@acidyo/curation-tips) and he also mentions that @jga knows all the technical stuff behind it.
I think we are in the same boat, I'm also not fully understanding how it works and yeah now it will all change again anyways :D
But how I understood it that after the HF21 change it will be most profitable for curators, to vote after 5 minutes instead of 15 ;)
Yes, that is what I heard too!
I'm rather optimistic about HF21, there is a lot of negativity around it but I think people are jumping the gun because they can't know if it will be bad until it gets here tomorrow... It can't be that bad I doubt Steemit would do something to jeopardize the platform.
We shall see. :)