<center>https://s21.postimg.io/7zz69ap9j/antifive.png</center>

If you haven't read about it yet there are some big changes coming to Steemit and Steem with the upcoming release of v0.14.0. You can check out @steemitblog's full post about it here https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/announcing-steem-0-14-0-release-candidate

There is quite a lot being changed but one of the biggest and most controversial changes being proposed is to limit how many upvotes you can do before having your voting power drastically impacted. Here is what they said:

<blockquote>
Target Votes of 5 per Day instead of 40

We are changing the target number of votes per day from 40 to 5 so that more people keep their voting power below 100%. The purpose of this change is to rebalance power toward normal users and away from bots. You can still vote as often as you like, this change merely impacts the speed at which voting power is consumed.
</blockquote>

Where is this arbitrary and seemingly low number 5 coming from? Is there any analysis or math that was done to reach this number or was this just chosen randomly from a hat?

Why is limiting engagement activities an acceptable solution for this problem? Posts and Upvotes should be encouraged not discouraged. Personally I think this will be disastrous to a good user experience. Steemit seems to be addressing issues by becoming more and more like a freemium gaming app.  You can only do so many things and then must wait while sitting on your hands for an arbitrary time to go by before you can do anything again.

If users fall in love with Steemit and want to create content and upvote all day long they should not be getting so heavily penalized for it. Capping user activity should not be the go to solution for dealing with undesired behavior from bots. 

The number of posts a day should be raised from 4 and the upvotes should not fall to 5.

No one wants to use a voting weight bar to manage their voting power. That is annoying.

Please stop throwing users under the bus so easily. These answers seem lazy and counter productive. I'm sure this community can figure out better ways to combat bots without resorting to cutting our own legs off.