I haven't seen any evidence of it being removed. So, when the payout comes, if a post/comment has less than 2 cents (0.02) worth of payout, whatever has been upvoted is returned to the reward pool without any reward to the author or curators. I doubt we are talking about "cents". I'm pretty sure it's not even HBD cents, but something a little more complicated than that. But basically, whatever is listed on front ends as Hive payout.
One way to kind of check this is to go through your old posts and look at the comments. If you see a comment with less of 0.02 payout, let me know. I haven't seen any. Plus, dustsweeper, dustbunny, and the like, upvote posts to be around 0.025, to make sure they don't fall below 0.02 until payout.
You are right! I didn't find payment for posts/comments under 2c, so the dust thing is still on... Thanks for pointing it out once again...
I have edited the post, but I suppose it will still be confusing for newbies... lol... As I got confused too... 😀