Are you willing to forgo a small reward and upvote someone quicker because you understand it may mean the difference in their visibility?

I suppose this matters mostly for people who frequently curate new content in tag feeds and people who monitor their feed continuously throughout the day. Is that what you do? If you check your personal feed only a couple times a day, you don't have access to many posts live for less than 30 minutes.

Also this makes me think: does a post sabotage its own visibility by being longer than average? Assuming (most assuredly incorrectly) that most people won't upvote your post until they have finished reading it, upvotes will come in later and thus decrease visibility relative to shorter posts. The system encourages posts to be within a certain length to achieve visibility, otherwise well-meaning followers must assume quality and upvote before reading.