Same mate, it's quite ridiculous to keep it going this way, doesn't matter if it's contests or whatever, there's very little reason/excuse to vote posts that late. There are times we do vote them as well but those posts are usually overlooked and in our scope for curation so we don't lose out anything and in the odd cases reward random curators who've put in time and their stake to go out of their way to vote posts close to 0 to a couple bucks. This however is a pattern that people could've easily abused for years and they've let it go on. And now they're facing the same loss on 2 different accounts and putting their authors in the crosshairs of downvotes just so the leeches will lose a bit APR.
Same mate, it's quite ridiculous to keep it going this way, doesn't matter if it's contests or whatever, there's very little reason/excuse to vote posts that late. There are times we do vote them as well but those posts are usually overlooked and in our scope for curation so we don't lose out anything and in the odd cases reward random curators who've put in time and their stake to go out of their way to vote posts close to 0 to a couple bucks. This however is a pattern that people could've easily abused for years and they've let it go on. And now they're facing the same loss on 2 different accounts and putting their authors in the crosshairs of downvotes just so the leeches will lose a bit APR.