RE: How will the HF20 dust vote changes affect the vote values?
I'm not sure I fully get it. Is there maybe a misunderstanding on the different thresholds? There are two thresholds: the vote dust threshold and the payout dust threshold. The vote dust threshold means, that a vote will not make it to the blockchain if it isn't worth at least 50M rshares (~1.2 SP). This will be changed with HF20 and I tried to get the implications of that change in this post. The payout dust threshold is unrelated to that and means that rewards are not payed out, if the pending payout of a post/comment is less that 0.02 STU at payout time.
Back to the vote dust threshold: You currently have around 700 SP. As long as you don't plan to vote with low single digit vote percentages, there won't be much of a difference for you. There are, however, a number of accounts which spread a lot of votes with very low values for curation rewards. For those, the changes with HF20 can have a strong influence on their rewards.
Thanks for the quick response. I have been wondering at the small votes I get from some. I actually got one of the lowest I have ever gotten just a little bit ago at 0.02% and I am thinking why on earth would someone waste the vote, does it even pay anything.
"There are, however, a number of accounts which spread a lot of votes with very low values for curation rewards"
Is this why I get a lot of votes on my posts for -0- value. I see small sp votes and then they vote at only 1% on top of that. I could not figure out why anyone would do this.
I am a weight loss coach - not a steemit expert :)
Yes, a lot of these very small votes are placed in order to get a good share of the curation rewards.
How do they even get them with such small votes? The vote itself is 0.000. Do they get 0.001 sp out of that? I am a weight loss coach and do not go digging into steemit stats, but when I was first here with a tiny vote, I was not getting curation rewards at all.
Yes, a well placed vote, even if it is super small, can get a magnitude of its own value back as curation rewards, if the final payout of the post is high enough. So getting 0.001 SP (or more) curation rewards from a vote that's worth close to nothing is possible.
So it is a lot relative to their vote size! Interesting...