great thanks for the information.

It does seem a bit strange, its like a punishment for spending time on the site.
it does prevent spamming i suppose but there is a time delay for that..

Thanks for the link too I will check out your point of view too.
Just about whales, they obviously have more weight with their vote for other people so I don't see why it should be capped for themselves. If they can make other people posts visible they should be able to do it for themselves? I think this is in the interest of steem and how are continuing to incentivise holding steempower