***Don’t vote on content that is already popular, and have many upvotes. Because your curation will be very small to reward. ***

What if I find a very popular post, but because I like it I upvote anyway. Because I want to support the author. I might not get anything, but does the author still earn money from my upvote?

I think it's really weird that the system only rewards you for upvoting within a specific time window... :\

Does this mean even if the author writes a good article it's only gonna make money in the first day or so? And as more time passes people are not incentivized to keep voting?