RE: Please DO NOT UPVOTE ME Unless ...
I heard of this the first time last week myself, through a post by a witness who was pondering if that threshold should be raised even higher! To more like .10 or even .25! Needless to say I expressed the minnow POV on that one!
Now I've been careful to give everyone at least a .02 upvote when they comment on my posts, which I can do because I bought delegated SP a while back. And since I don't have that much time to read online these days with the house sale and relocation in progress, I don't tend to run out of VP these days even upvoting every genuine comment. But I have changed my behavior in one way.
I've started upvoting my own comments! If I get .01 from someone, I add at least another .01 with my own upvote, so that I can get a payout like they intended for me. I normally have a 25% self-vote target to make good on my delegated SP investment, but I don't even consider this sort of upvoting a part of that, because the other person is trying to pay you and simply lacks the power, especially if they are giving you a 100% vote but don't have 80 SP.
BTW, I think your formatting is great. How do you do the centering?
That's an interesting perspective @indigoocean. I'm not going to upvote my own comments at the moment but will be adding a comment letting the person know that I won't get paid, they are draining their VP and then directing them to my article.
I read that post which suggested raising the threshold to .10 or even .25. It just goes to show how many of the more established people have no real understanding of what it's like to be trying to make your way nowadays. I find it mind boggling actually, and more than a little disheartening, that a witness can be so out of touch.
With regard centering you use < center>write the text you want to center and then end with < /center>. You need to remove the space after the <. I had to put that in there so it wouldn't center the text and hide the tags.
I hope the relocation is going well. 😁
So this is a live demonstration of the problems with managing the Dust threshold. I upvoted your comment at more than 0.02c but when I came back here to reply to a different comment it had dropped to 0.01c What a total pain in the ass this is! Grrrrrr!
Yes, the price of steem seems to be dropping right now. It is very difficult to work those thresholds. As promised though, I added my own upvote to push it over .02, so no worries 😀