OK, thanks a lot, so my feeling that for 7 days we will have a "mixed" payout algo is correct. That is, the curation-weights will remain the same but the author-curate-rewards will go to the pool.

This does mean that those who currently upvote very early on a post should change the timing - unless that remains their strategy, but not if they are doing it to give the author an extra reward. In such cases they need to *increase* their timing... now.

@crokkon - What is the meaning of this phrase? "reverse auction timeframe"

I have 20 people I upvote through steemdunk. I have them all set at 27 minutes. Think I should change them to 16 minutes now, correct?

I self vote and just set myself up for 16 minutes. I previously was manually voting right after I created the post. So I think I am better off to put myself on the autovoter now that I read your answers here.

Hi, the quick answer is to move them to 15 minutes.

The longer answer depends on why you're voting on 0 minutes.

Hi, your own autovotes are OK, maybe drop them to 16 mins or so. But those platforms such as Busy who autovote really need to look at this and change their algo as it will no longer benefit authors.

Not so much burnt as recycled. Having tried to solve the issue of early self-voting, we now have an algo where we all need to be wary in case the author-curation rewards are too high, possibly even by accident.

the author, from now on, will receive a fixed 75% of the upvotes (plus his own curation rewards for self-voting, just as any other voter) but part of the total curation rewards may be drained away into the general pool.

I hope people adjust their behaviour asap.

Yes, depending on their size, they will have a small drag on curation earnings for all the other curators.

Hi, I thought this would be an important issue, but have only seen chats in discord. I now suspect we may end up with a mixed calculation at payout. If one looks at the data on steemd, the "weight" column means curation-weight and is calculated at the time of voting and includes factoring in any curation loss due to voting before 30 minutes. I suspect recalculating all of those to take account of the new 15-minute reverse auction will not happen, hence everyone will be paid their curation rewards under HF19 terms. However, the curation amounts that end up going to the author, the author_curate_reward, may well be paid to the reward pool as per HF20 - unless there is specific code to not do so for posts published pre-HF20.