RE: How many weeks do you think powerdown should be?

Dude... its not yours. Changing the whole system so it is yours is fine to propose, but as it is now, the post payouts ARE NOT yours.

Now.. heres slope to sit on and slide if DVs are removed.

1. You remove ability of downvotes to affect payout.
2. self voting is incentivized to 100% of your voting power. Will happen, has happened in the past. Everybody just votes themselves. It is their stake after all.
3. Voting system is thus useless and we can simply, without any significant difference remove the author reward pool entirely and attach the 10% curation APR to simply staking Hive. Voting content is gone.

We were close to there years ago when downvotes werent free but existed. This is even worse and would kill the reward pool entirely.