Thanks Amos!

I think the issues with high-scoring development contributions not being rewarded arose because:
(a) Whilst the maximum vote percentages for individual contributions were increased, the vote-allocation-bucket for development remained the same size. Which meant there were fewer development contributions being rewarded, albeit with higher rewards for those that top-scored.
(b) The maximum percentages for individual contributions in all other categories also increased, meaning that other categories filled more of their own buckets, with less spare capacity available to be spread to development / translations.
I think that this will be more apparent when I post up the January analysis.

The age-weighted sorting is a good addition. I also think that giving priority to users that haven't received an upvote within the last 7 days (i.e. an additional boolean sort key for the waiting-rewards-queue) might help attract / retain more occasional users. This would not restrict contributors to one upvote a week but would make them more at risk of not receiving an upvote if they have already recently received one.

Am also hoping for a rise in the Steem price. As always!

Good to be back!