Regarding the Fix for End of Payout Period Downvote Abuse:
The 12 hour upvote lockout has been actually been useful for fighting abuse, and instances of it being abused have been minimal. I actually think this cooldown scheme will lead to more last-minute self voting abuse if the voters know that if it's not caught immediately, the vote power needed to counter it may not be available.
I also don't see the logic in adding yet another change to an already bloated feature and change list.
Agreed, if they make this change, they should at least make the period longer (like 24h instead op 12h)!
It makes me think of the little war that went on a few weeks ago (or maybe it's still going on? I haven't paid much attention) where numerous Haejin posts were downvoted on the last day. Uncertain if any of that was happening in the last 12hrs or not.
I understand that the initial 12hr window idea was an effort to allow correction of 'unjustified rewards', but this seems to make 'justice' (in whichever direction), more difficult to achieve. Seems to be another classic example of punishing 98% of people that aren't abusing things in response to the 2% that are (or whatever the percentage numbers may actually be).
but @pfunk, we have 7 flag-days per post, with a nice fade in and now a nice fade out, don't you dig it?
It's still ongoing. I see this change as at least a chance to move in a better direction. Right now, one person can invalidate the votes of 200+ other people and nothing at all can be done about it. At least the proposed approach allows others to disagree.