A lot has been happening here in SteemLand recently so lets just get into it.
Block Size & Bandwidth
As per recommendation of 
maximum_block_size to 98304 although my vote does not have much of a say I think it is important to keep everything in check. This comes after the majority of witnesses (Top 20) came to the consensus to increase the block size to help with the current bandwidth problems, I go into this more in my last witness post. However this did not seem to solve the problem... so it's defiantly a hot topic for us witnesses. With growth in the platform already underway this is an issue we must solve.
Self UpVoting at a Higher Cost?
I wanted to start a discussion on the use of self UpVoting (we all do it... including me) but should it come at a higher cost? In order to make Curation more appealing, over what I've come to conclusion about, the obvious profitable potential of pure Self UpVoting I think there should be a extra cost to your Voting Power. Now this cost would not be so drastic that you would never UpVote again but nearly a way to sway votes onto others comments and posts. Lets say for example an extra 5% over a regular vote or maybe even 10%, essentially spreading the reward pool out and possibly creating more interaction and voting. So far this is just a thought and it really would need to be discussed much further in detail and debated. Since I haven't had the chance to really get into a discussion about it due to other pressing matters I thought I'd bring it up here. Whats your thoughts? Maybe you have another solution to mass Self UpVoting, I would love to hear it.
Voting In General
My recent experiment into voting varied on scales from: very often, at a very low percentage; to very few votes, with the maximum percentage, and both have had much different impacts. The most recent with some controversy because of the commenting part of the experiment, which I do feel now came off as very much SPAM. I am truly sorry for whom ever felt this way, it was not my intention. However this did help me dive deeper into the current discussion on bandwidth and how its being drained quite quickly from Auto Voting Bots. I'll get to that in a second. With data still to crunch the differences between mass UpVoting and specific UpVoting are still to be determined but insight from these experiments and others may lead to some interesting discoveries.
Here's something to look at: total_reward_fund_steem at 0.000 STEEM I'm still not sure of what effect this may have on the platform, however I do plan to find out... unless someone may want to elaborate here within the comments?
Bots
There have been a lot of discussions recently on the use of BOTS, well frankly, there has always been a fair amount of chatter on the subject. Now I believe more the never some of the BOTS may be doing quite a bit of harm via the Bandwidth Issue and reward pool. Recent evidence of mass posting/commenting alongside self UpVotes and BOT following has led to some serious use of Bandwidth and the lowering of the Reward Pool. This has been making a lot of smaller accounts UpVotes produce almost nothing or dust even. Not to mention the amount of SPAM hitting the blockchain and filling up the platform, which is never good. I'm trying not to just ramble on forever, so I'll just leave this open to discussion.
One more thought on the subject is the welcome BOTS. Just a a small suggestion if this is truly for the community and just a way to inform and help out the new users why not Decline Payout on the comments and up the vote % via the post commented on? Don't know how? Not an excuse anymore... Here's the code:
steem.comment_options(reply["operations"][0][1]["author"]+"/"+reply["operations"][0][1]["permlink"],{"max_accepted_payout": "0.000 SBD"},"YOURBOTNAME")
print("Declined Payout!")
Brings me to...
Declining Payout
How ever hard it my be to give up on potential earnings (It's Hard) I feel as though some posts and or comments should really utilize this more. I have seen a few other witnesses always Decline Payout on their witness-updates so I will be doing that as well from now on. I will also be using python with The Code Above to reply to comments here and decline payout for those as well! By no means am I going to start declining everything and don't recommend you doing this either, but c'mon, why not once in a while!?
So how can you show your love without rewarding me? Thats easy...
Vote 
for Witness!
You know the drill! For those who have already voted for me , thank you, I hope I will keep your trust and maintain that vote. For all of you who haven't voted for me... please consider it! I have a ways to go to even get into the top 50, so every vote counts! So head over to https://steemit.com/~witnesses and scroll past all those excellent amazingly talented other witnesses and get to the bottom where you can fill in my name. Remember you have 30 votes to give so use them wisely!
Don't usually add an image to these posts however... Loving classic black and white lately. Old Russian Stand By T.V Broadcast.
There is actually a lot more to talk about but I'll keep to this for now, I'll keep it short ;)