I was browsing around steemit.com the old fashioned way, on my own without any bots, and I found a post by @Timsaid that I liked. The post is "Tim Travels A Day in the Vineyards", however I noticed this new message for the very first time when I placed my vote. **"Cannot increase payout within last twelve hours before payout" **
There must be a better way to communicate with users than displaying error messages, it could give some new users that are not paying attention the wrong idea. This is only beta, so it is good, but when we move on, these messages should be more like notifications, use less red colors, and also they should be somewhere on the top of the page where they don't cover up other posts.
The way the error messages are now, they show up so fast, and can be hard to read and understand before they auto dissapear. The way steemit is using these error messages is wrong because they tend to shift the burden of sorting out voting rules onto the users, when it is not our job, not one bit! Our job is to find a post we like from a pool of votable posts, and be able to vote on it as quickly as possible and pay out the content creator no matter what. Weather it be within the last twelve hours of a payout, or 160 days after a post. Steemit voting should always be seamless! If we try to pay out, and then fail, then we feel like we did something wrong, we don't wan't to make our users feel anything negative. Instead of showing an error message, could steemit divert these votes to another round of payouts in a temp wallet for the next HF, and let the author manually collect these rewards? This small amount could add up to a lot of rewards for authors over time, and then 