Yes there's no author rewards directly.
But the author still has an 'edge' in the curation algorithm for being the 1st to vote. As the content remains >0 in terms of popularity (upvotes-downvotes), the author will keep on earning curation rewards on each vote, while this won't be true for all voters 'in the middle'
sorry i am lost with this. so i vote 1dtc on my content, and then i have 10 votes after mine that are all upvotes , what are my earnings on that other upvotes?
so i theory (removing downvotes) as long as someone is voting on something, everybody that voted before get a part of it?
over my brain thing. i will just have to see it in work.
thanks for trying.