@ottodv Sorry about posting here but the nesting issue is preventing posting directly. Thanks for the extra info. I was wondering what the reason for the declining voting power issue was in the update.
I can't find the Steemit account not being able to vote in the white paper but I may be missing it or it may have been state elsewhere but @smooth is saying this too and he was there at the start so would probably know.
The alternative would for the the Steemit team members to delegate their voting power as an alternate source that doesn't break any prior agreements but obviously that would be up to them if they wanted to do that.
The thing I liked most about this idea was having elected high power curators and if we get some kind of voting delegation system- even having a proportion of all delegated voting used in this way could work well.
@plotbot2015 Some actual figures would be great but I am not the best person to provide them as I don't know the details of how everything is calculated code wise. A member of the team would be best placed to do that.