I am actually looking forward to Tuesday 25th September in more ways than one. Firstly it will be my first experience of one on here and would like to experience how it changes the platform.
The one change that really intrigues me is the change to the current timings on the curation rewards. The 30 minute curation window is now changing to a 15 minute window. Basically it will help curation and reward users who vote within the time frame. The change I really like is the self voting rule. Currently an author can self vote, the earlier they vote the less rewards are on offer to the curators. This has been a bug bear of mine lately as in my way of thinking if someone has read your post ,and is going to give you a vote which you benefit from anyway ,why take from the hand that is giving you something. I am hoping users that currently do this will change their way of thinking and think more about their followers than themselves. This should boost curation no end and more manual voting should occur.
There will be a new system set up for new accounts using a token. Most of us were given Steep Power which we paid back in order to start using the platform immediately. These tokens will be discounted initially and controlled by the witnesses. When the daily number of tokens runs out then the discount won't apply. Controlling the number via the witnesses is done so it doesn't place any extra pressure on the block chain. This has been put in place to ease new users onto the platform. I still don't know why it takes weeks for the sign up process so I am hoping this will be a lot quicker and speed up the growth of the platform.
Changes are always good and it is about moving forward and eventually being able to receive the masses so Steem can go mainstream.