you vote with the voting power, not the DTC. DTC generates VP at the rate of +1VP/hour/dtc you hold.
When people upvote, it converts the VP of the current vote into DTCs, and splits it between curation winners, it depends on the activity of the network... If people start voting more, as the number of printed DTC is stable, then you need to spend more VP to print DTCs.
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.