Hi @killerstorm , this post is really helpful. Do you know if there have been any changes to the curation payout calculations since your analysis and proposal? I am trying to replicate some of the manually, but I'm running into some issues and I'm wondering if it's because the underlying logic has been updated. One issue is that the total_vote_weight value is not equal to the sum of the individual vote weights. For example, if you look at this random post:

https://steemd.com/steemit/@chitty/if-you-have-the-votes-that-is-all-that-matters

You'll see that the total_vote_weight value is 17,372,172,123,681,100,000 but the sum of the weights associated with each vote is only 11,883,041,865,956,000,000. So total_vote_weight is almost 50% higher than the sum of the individual vote weights. The wgt% values on each vote appear to be using the total_vote_weight as the denominator, so the sum of all the wgt% values isn't 100% (as I think is reasonable to expect).

If anyone else votes on that post, or it goes past the 12h payout threshold, the numbers won't line up with this post, but any other <12h old post should have the same pattern.

Sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but this is the clearest post that I've found on the mechanics (and issues) with the curation rewards calculations. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!