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Whatever is lost from the early vote penalty is applied to the authors reward. So in effect there is no penalty for authors to vote for themselves immediately. That is my understanding anyway.

OK. That was not clear from the explanation. I'll have to look more deeply in the code. Perhaps we can discuss what's happening there in slack.

If you vote on your own post then all the curation rewards go to you (the author)

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