@danielsaori @davemccoy I have seen the dustsweeper name around for a while but today read a post about it (by @curatorcat) and finally understand the concept. I am confused though. Some posts and comments do in fact pay out even if they are under $.02. Although I already knew this to be true, I ran a quick SteemSQL query to pop up some results to show it - see screencap for examples of comments that paid out recently well under $.02
Have you checked if it was in fact true that posts/comments under $.02 don't pay out?
EDIT - now that I am poking around more, I am not seeing payouts of less than .01 though. There may be a minimum .01, checking into that now. But there are definitely payouts between .01 and .02
EDIT 2- part of what was confusing me is that there are apparently two different "dust threshold" terms on Steem blockchain :) I was familiar with the voting dust threshold that is being changed under HF20, which has nothing to do with a minimum payout. But I am still confused as to why I see comments paying out under $.02 :)
hey Carl, there can be payouts below 0.02 SBD/STEEM/SP, but only if the pending payout in STU was above or equal 0.02 STU. In case of a post/comment value of 0.02 STU at payout time, the author would get 0.015 STU (75%) as ~0.007 STEEM and 0.007 SP, the curators in total the remaining 0.005 STU in SP. In the screenshot above there were additionally beneficiaries, which further reduced the author share of the payout.
cool thanks for explaining! I knew I had seen payouts smaller than $.02 when I was looking at payout history. Cheers
Hey Carl, its what he said :P .... The STU is what we mean by what has to be above 0.019 in order to pay out. So if it shows .02, then it might be only .016 and there would be no payout. :)
Thanks for the great answer!