Thanks Asher!
With a portion of the curation % going back to the pool following the last fork, it's interesting to see that we are looking at more like 20% for the curators. Are we heading in the wrong direction here?!
If implemented without the curation slider, "flat curation" would remove the need for the 15 minute period and there would be no curation sent back to the reward pool. People could vote when they wanted and all voters would move back to the "headline" 25% curation rate (on each vote, and overall as long as they voted efficiently).
However it wouldn't solve the issues with bid-bots and trending and getting the best content recognised, which I think is the more important question to solve.
Thanks for the review!