So say Alice gets 10 genuine and good comment she wants to reward, it would take her 10x40% vp to get them all to 0.02 at least burning 40% of her daily vp.
For Bob it would only take 1 daily vote to give the same amount of comments votes up to 0.08$ and at the same time get a tiny bit more curation and give the comments more rewards than the vp he burned compared to Alice.
So Alice could instead choose to allocate 10% of her post rewards to the comments, these post rewards are past ~16 hive in total thus aren't affected by the tax curve and she only uses 10x1% votes to evenly give all 10 comments 10% of her post rewards in tips and only burn 0.1 votes of the day.
lol, that's a blast from the past
Simply demonstrating how engagement triggers more engagement.
Plus I couldn't resist.
So, do the comments not receiving any author upvotes wind up having no rewards?
Yes