I agree that something needs to change for both bidbots and curation to work more effectively.

While the 30 minute rule is unnecessarily long, the five minute rule is a bit short. Right now I am constantly waiting on the best time to upvote, usually at 25 minutes.

A better compromise for curation would be a 15 minute rule. As a curator, I know that I could easily get 3-4 votable posts come in within seconds. Five minutes barely allows time to read quickly, make a severely limited comment and vote.

It doesnt allow one to effectively check sources, look at the author profile, or attend to more than 1-2 posts. The five minute rule would encourage people to vote for the sake of early rewards rather than giving time to actually reading the post and make a well thought out comment.

Also, 30 minutes is too short. I think the rewards should be given on a gradient. Too much stress is placed on the first half hour, to the point that people just dont vote much after 30 minutes unless they like the post exceptionally. Rewards should be higher for at least a 2-4 hour window, so the general audience is more inclined to look through the feed