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When you click on the arrow on the right of the reward value you will see what is the pending time for the next payout, if it shows 0.00 you should not expect to get anything as payout. I've seen some articles take more than 12 hours for their first payout, though ot exactly sure what might extend the initial period.

Well the thing is they did pay me it's just far less than expected. Do you know if I can see these penalties being applied? Is it something I can lookup on steemd.com?

From the amount measured at payout time (which could be different from the numbers you see during the 12 hours period, because it adjusts itself according to market price for Steem and Steem Backed Dollars) , 25% of that amount goes to curators of your post, and the remaining 75% that goes to you is split in two : half is paid in Steem Backed Dollars, and half is paid in Steem Power.

https://steemstats.com is very useful to see how many votes you used in the last 24 hours, as well as showing you your "voting power" (which goes down by a small amount every time you upvote or flag a post or comment), it is usually best to try and keep that number above 75%, otherwise your votes have less "weight" and impact.

Hope that was a bit useful :)

No, I don't think they are being shown somewhere on steemd.