Strictly speaking, there wasn't a penalty on comments before. The penalty was just on any comment or post that didn't receive enough rshares (voting strength). But the quasi-linear curve code was removed, and I think that is what you're referring to.
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I know, it was around 20 hive, so it pretty unlikely a comment receives more :)
It is cool that there is no "penalty" anymore :)