I have some sympathy for what you are trying to do in removing autovote abuse; however for individuals who produce quality content for a living the auotvote trails for trusted content are one of the key things that keep quality content producers here working on posting quality works in a similar way to Patreon. Changing the weekly default to a multiple of your daily limit would have been more fair, respected peoples choices, and allowed people to individually reduce the weekly limit for followers they thought were abusing the system. The reality is however that if someone is abusing your auto vote trust you are likely to just remove them completely. Or if they are intentionally abusing it with shitposting linked to a 2nd account then they will simply update their settings.

This change will in the long run just damage small content produces who were benefiting from a distributed but semi disengaged auotvote fanbase while allowing the large scale abusers who have larger stake with multiple cross voting accounts and monitor things closely to simply log in and update their systems. Very sad to see. I appreciate you provide this service and it is within your rights to change at any notice. However the service does form a big part of the hive ecosystem; and some discussions with the community about how to address this would have been appreciated in advance.

If you had put a hard limit on the votes per week (limit to 1 or 2 per day or even 7 per week so one cant just vote 10 times a day for a scam account) then this change might have come across as helping fight abuse. As it stands it does nothing to help abuse and just hurts people who have worked to develop a trail or people who have passively invested their hive.