Thank you for taking the time to write this detailed explanation! I appreciate it!
I knew it worked somewhat like that, but I did not know all the details, or at least at that level.
However, in practice, most curators or users will not vote after 24 hours. And in some cases, they don't vote even if the post is at 0 or a few cents, maybe because they don't know these windows well or think the trail following them will be affected.
And maybe expanding it to 3.5 days is a lot, but 48 hours would be great and helpful for both curators and authors.
Thank you again!