your vote has the same impact on the final result regardless of when you vote. If you were the first to upvote as a minnow and saw no movement, then it gets upvoted to $500, removing your vote will see it go down by $1.50 or more.
Minnows can have a huge impact in separating the rewards of the top content.
It is unlikely that I will be put on the trending page, if I were to start to get whalevotes from money changers I think I would fall over, that being said, I'm only here for the permanent record, but I would still like to see the minnow math done, when my votes stop rounding down you will see minnow retention increase.
Please do the math to the 10th decimal so that our little votes don't get rounded down.
Or do I have a mistaken impression of what is happening?