You wrote some excellent articles there. I guess my rambling point was less about the timing of the vote, or the analysis of the article, but more about the systems I see that are more basic. User generates post, apply vote. The systems I saw were more simplistic and voted any post the user posted.

My issue was that often a lot of the content they create is excellent and worthy of an upvote, but many people make shorter posts, and this logic still applies a big vote to it. To me it was just bad optics to see so users getting several large upvotes on every post, some were great quality, others were much less so but all received the same size vote from the "curator".

Hopefully we move towards more manual curation after HF25