@davemccoy a couple things (btw you can thank lynn for calling me over...lol), but wanted to start with this one:
Then @dustsweeper will look through your feed for any post or comment in the 5th and 6th day that is less than $0.0249 or less.
Where are you pulling the data from? I'm hoping your using a live vote value vs the posted value as it changes with not only the value of steem but also based on how the pool is manipulated by last minute massive votes from those like mr TA gives himself.
Then on the same lines. If for some reason someone paid for a vote and it still got dusted what is your policy on that?
Then the math of things doesn't support a 2x ROI being profitable. From the numbers I've run in the past it's no less then 210% and many times needs to be 225% on comments as it's a straight 25% curation hit you take vs on posts you can keep that lower due to early votes.
Hi, just to fill in about the vote value. We are using the up to date value at the time of the vote.
If there would be a sharp price drop in the last day, it could happen that the value would still go below the threshold before payout, but it is not very likely as we are voting with an average $0.028.
I'll let @danielsaori handle the where he gets the data from, he is the expert on that...
On the math, you have to realize that the profitability changes with the price of steem... at $3 value of steem if you do the math, the breakeven after curation is roughly 1.9x... this changes all the time. You have to do the calculation at various steem prices and you will see what I mean.
On the other point, if someone pays for a vote and for some reason it still gets dusted (its happened 8 times in roughly 4000 votes) then the full value gets refunded to the user. So this is not an issue at all.
So glad you're on it @davemccoy. I don't have a hope in hell of working all that out! 😍