Nice, thanks for clearing that up. What does happen to the penalized amount of the curation award @smooth ? Does it go to the parent author or is it simply not paid out ? Let's hope this system really becomes more effective, at the moment it seems its worth to take a penalty for some posts because you still get better curation rewards than with voting on posts which most likely will not be discovered by someone with a little bit more power. Btw...Does the curation reward grow after that 30minutes ? I mean would you get a bigger reward for finding a post after 10h which wasn't trending but suddenly starts trending after my vote than when i vote for it after 30mins directly ?