Now how this works exactly, I'm not sure. I'm hoping the curation rewards aren't just being burned, although that would be weird.
Interesting, SBE doesn't show that flag. The post did pay out 100% to the author, it didn't lose anything to burning, so that's not what's happening.
If we can just remove curation from our posts without telling anyone that's kind of a big deal. On the other hand the devs could just use that to default to no curation on comments and kill one of the worst side effects of the change.
Sorry! Having spoken to @crokkon and @espoem and some people at Utopian the answer is that, whilst there are no curation rewards on the post, the author doesn't benefit. The curation rewards are simply not paid out (so they stay in the pool I guess). Not what I thought after all.
The thinking is that it's not possible to give 100% to the author under HF20, even if you are willing to sacrifice your curation rewards. So you're right, that is a step backwards.
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