With a time window of exactly 0 seconds, you are wrong even in this. Often autovoters would vote my post first in the 1 second i needed to click the upvote button.

I am only wrong if the author selfvotes manually, but if they have a bot setup they have the same advantage as other autovoters versus the rest of the crowd. The main argument of my post is that there is no extra incentive to curate manually vs doing it via code with a bot (they both have the same apr).

There is still an opportunity cost to do manual curation due to how time consuming it is. As a told khaleelkazi I am not opposed to the change I think it's better from a macro point of view by leveling the playing field. From an individual perspective it is still more cost effective to setup a bot but at least manual curators do not lose out vs the autovoters.