At present, votes are connected to Steem (and elsewhere? e.g. Splintertalk) and so I wouldn't expect much of a change in the numbers.

Ahh, that makes sense. I guess just like you can get double rewards, you'd also give double downvotes.

Yea the 3D thing, the community that was already there loved it, but it didn't bring in new users. This is also where I learned the fallacy of "if you build it, they will come" Nope, you need marketing. Good marketing.

I'm really hoping there is some data to say 'yeah, this (EIP) is working', but I do have my reservations.

Fingers crossed.