Each member is assigned a weekly voting weight based on their number of shares. That weekly weight is divided by your posting frequency to determine the actual upvote value per post.
It is hard for somebody with a low number of shares and high posting frequency to exceed the dust threshold. If you do not have enough other votes to consistently exceed the dust threshold, I would recommend either slowing down your posting frequency or increasing your number of shares.
Please also keep in mind that most displays that show voting value only show two decimal places. So if your weekly reward is 0.06 (about what I expect for 1 share, and you post 25 times per week (3-4 times daily) that averages out to 0.0024 per post, which will show as 0.00 on your post because it doesn't show decimals. The whole value is still assigned to you, and as long as you exceed the dust threshold it would be included in your post payout.
In our new system (under development), the dust threshold will be treated as a minimum upvote value. If you have not had enough upvote weight assigned to you for your upvote to exceed the dust threshold, your posts will be skipped until you do and then you would receive an upvote that exceeds the dust threshold. This will guarantee that every member receives their appropriate level of upvote value, but it will make it look like you're being skipped sometimes.
Thanks!
I did wonder about decimal places... so that clarifies that.
I do have one further question.
I understand that there are a number of pools and that more will be added as needed.
Say that my next couple of shares were to come out of a different pool... does that mean that the dust threshold would have to be exceeded in two different pools? Or will my first 100 shares all come out of sbi5, since that's where my first one came from?
Thanks again!
All your shares are grouped together into a single pool, until you hit the 100 shares per pool limit, and then you will have 100 in one pool and the rest in a second pool, until 200, etc.
That clarifies it for me. Thanks!