Dustsweeper - are you using it?
Really great thing in this Steem thingi is possibility to reward posts that you enjoy to read. Maybe even better thing is the possibility to reward people that read and comment on your posts. Voting on other people blogs when you don't have thousands of SteemPower is most of the time not a problem, because most of the time blog will get few votes and will jump over the Dust vote threshold. But voting on comments in your blog means that most probably the only vote on that comment will be your own, and that is the moment where dust votes become important.
Dust vote
A vote on a post or comment is that has a value of less than $0.02. is a Dust vote, and will not be paid out to the commenter. So if you upvote a comment on your post with 0.019$ and no one else upvote it, you spend the vote power but that 0.019$ not be paid out, it will become just dust.
photo taken from @dustsweeper
@dustsweeper is a service that is sweeping the dust votes :) So if someone upvotes your comment with 0.015$ dustsweeper bot will after few days add an upvote so you get over the threshold and that 0.015$ are not lost.
To check how that all works please go and check the link here: https://steemit.com/dustsweeper/@dustsweeper/dustsweeper-faq
Why am i writing about this now?
A lot of new users probably have no idea about Dust votes, and a lot will have no idea after this post of mine :D
Thing is, i do love to reward people that comment on my blogs, but the workings of Vote Power in combination with Steem Power gives me just few votes per day that will be over the 0.02$. While the prices were 0.25$ per steem i was not upvoting any comments, i would rather go to their blog and upvote a post of theirs. Now that prices are up a bit, i do get to upvote some but it would be nice to know that you can upvote less (and to more people) but still not be throwing your VP away.
Just a quick freewrite, maybe someone will learn something new :D
Reminder:
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thanks for sharing :)
i always try to vote minimum of 0.025 for the fluctuation
This is an important issue and thanks for writing to clarify it.
I always thought the dust threshold was $0.030... which is why I have been reward commenters on my blogs with at least 3 cents.
@dustsweeper are doing valuable work!
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i thought it is 0.025 but that number is said probably because of price fluctuation and that vote something (where it goes down with time :D, i am a noob :D ) so you don't vote just 0.020 and after few days it is below it.
this 0.020 i found on dustsweeper article, i did not do any other researcher
Ohhh great
Thanks for sharing 😊
I'll must use it now
I have three blogs here and just started using @dustsweeper on all of them about a month ago. I should have done so much earlier. I get those dust sweeping votes almost daily on all three blogs since I comment like crazy with each one of them.
I had no idea how much I was leaving on the table here. Sometimes I get up to 3 votes on the blog that is the most active! I am really happy to give that curation reward to the small person who voted for me when that is the case.
But the other surprising thing is how many "bigs" are voting comments for dust. Who knew! Apparently those 50000 sp votes at 1% were less than I thought. I'm not one to analyze votes here, but this has been quite an eye-opener.
@dustsweeper is a winner for me and I will make sure it always has money on it now.
a lot of people have no idea about dust votes, and it is shame to just throw away vote power.
and when you do a lot of comments, having someone automatically checking the dust, it is great.
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