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@winstonwolfe - Thanks you for clarifying. I really appreciate it. So did my author_curate_reward go down to 1.14% from too many top level posts? I didn't expect to be penalised so heavily. 20 posts in 4 days - I didn't think that was excessive.

Looks like if the max is 4 per day before penalization, that would be 16 spread evenly in 4 days before they start taking it down, so yeah that's probably it.

Dang. I'm glad to hear editing doesn't count as a post, because it felt like it would have been a bug, but now hearing that I'm so heavily penalised for trying to create a lot of decent content. Thats a harder pill to swallow :(
Thank you for all the time you've spent with me on this issue. I owe you one buddy.