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RE: steemrewarding.com - curation performance is shown and other improvements
The 15 min penalty does not reduce the author reward only the curation reward is reduced.
In some cases, a higher curation reward can be achieved when voting before 15 min due to the non-linear curation reward function. Thus, some people are vote earlier than 15 min. The author reward is not changed by this, only the curation reward.