Morning @exyle. Looks like we're going to have another gorgeous day too so I'm catching up here and then going to head off to the beach a little later.
Recently there seems to be a lot of talk about something called the dust threshold. i haven't come across this before and wanted to ask you about it, Basically it says that if the pay out of a post or comment is below SBD 0.02 the pay-out will be set to zero.
I have been spreading my votes wide in order to give the smaller accounts a bit of a boost. However, apart from the social aspect of doing this it seems that my votes have been, for a large part, pointless in that the recipient won't have been paid anything. In which case, maybe I should place fewer votes of higher value on comments.
So, I'm wondering, is this dust threshold for real?
This is a great question @gillianpearce I am curious too. I've been seeing this dust threashold thing before. But, previous to hearing about it, somewhere along the lines, i also picked up some info that the actual decimal places of digits is something like 5. So, 0.00005 say. And, even if it shows 0.00 there's some value in there and that value accumulates. Mixed messages!
Enjoy the beach!!!! That will be wonderful 🏖
Yes. I thought the same @yogajill, that there was some value even if it shows zero. That's still true I think if there are multiple votes on posts/comments since I think it applies to the total amount not any one person's value.
But for us at the lower end of the scale, with fewer followers, comments in particular can often only get one vote. 😢
Yes, @timcliff wrote about it recently: here.
I think the threshold will be removed come HF20.
Ah. Well that explains why there's a lot of talk about it recently then @exyle. I think I need to adjust my upvoting strategy!
You are slowly becoming an expert!
Ha, ha, ha! @kus-knee. I'm definitely understanding it better. That's for sure. But there seems to be something new to learn everyday. This whole dust threshold thing has caught me, and many other plankton/minnows, by surprise.
If it was put in place to help stop comment spam it has failed miserably, not least because teh spammers themselves probably don't know about it. 😁
Oh to ride the waves of orcahood where such trifles are no longer a concern! 😂 😂 😂