Getting an upvote on comments I give does not change the likelihood that I will comment. Buy me a beer for every comment I give and maybe I'll try a little harder, haha! Seriously though. I also try to give a little upvote on all comments on my posts but I recently read (I think it was @soyrosa who mentioned it in the photogames discord) that if a comment gets less than a $.02 upvote, it gets cast off as "dust" and doesn't actually go to the commenter. This bummed me out as I feel I've been wasting a lot of voting power upvoting comments with .01 upvotes. My upvotes aren't worth a lot yet and giving out a bunch of .02 upvotes would drain my voting power fast. For now, I still try to reply to all comments and give a small upvote until I figure this all out...
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I had no idea about that .02 thing. Where is this documented? Crazy... So does that mean .02 is still ok?
@soyrosa feel free to chime in! haha
Just signed up for @dustsweepers and giving it a test. It seems to be a way to increase the value of an upvote on a comment without draining voting power. Hopefully it works... https://steemit.com/community/@dustsweeper/ann-introducing-dustsweeper-a-new-service-to-turn-dust-into-profit
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Oh, wait a minute. It seems to work opposite of what I though. It's self serving and upvotes your comments that other's have upvoted less than .02 on, haha! My bad. We need a bot that does what I thought it did...
I'm still a bit lost. haha
Me too. I'm much better at being lost in the middle of the forest... Numbers hurt my brain but I'm trying, haha!
@scottshots and @soyrosa are totally right about this. Just like in the 0.01 and 0.02 posts, none of that ends up in the wallet. Not sure if that is documented somewhere but those maths are simple... Steemit uses just two decimals, and what you obtain from what your posts collects is 37.5% going to your wallet in SBD. So if you're going to reward a comment thinking that you actually want the user to be really SBD rewarded it should be at least 0.03 so it will end up being 0.01 on the wallet after 7 days. I was joking yesterday with @gabyoraa telling her that our vote is still just "a like".
I wonder how that varies as steem goes up and down in value. I'd still love to read more about this. Still seems odd.
About that, I have noticed that on most cases the posts under 1 SBD doesn't change with the market variations because of the same thing about the decimals. The market should change something like 10% up or down to modify 0.99 collected by a post. And 10% change on the steem value doesn't happen very often or that suddenly, it does happen (it just happened this week) but is not something that we (users) should count on.
Wait... .03!?!? I've been upvoting at .02 when I can lately, hahaha! One day I will understand but in the mean time, it's been fun trying to figure it all out.
Yep haha the payout from 0.02 is just 0.0075, so 0.00. Minimum vote that pays out is 0.03 that means a 0.01125 (0.01) payout.
Good to know and I'll lock it into my memory. Thank you!
my vote was more then i like for few weeks and now it is just a like again :D
I feel you, my upvote is like half thumb up right again haha
Well "a like" is probably not a thing on steemit but it still worth something for me... And for the rest of the social media society.
When I first read about the dust threshold I was a little bummed. Felt like I had wasted so much voting power on comments. After thinking about it though upvoting comments still makes sense to me just get the real comments above the bots and spam.
@timcliff suggested raising the threshold a while back. I can understand why a witness would want to reduce the spam comments but it's kind of depressing to people thats vote doesn't meet the threshold.
@jarvie here is the post that mentions how it works. https://steemit.com/steem/@timcliff/proposal-to-make-spam-less-profitable
Yes! Thank you @smawkward. I just spent over a half hour trying to find that info. I like your reason to still upvote comments.
I'm not sure why my brain associated @soyrosa with that info, I could swear she mentioned something about it in a discord but I couldn't find that conversation... Anyway @jarvie, that is what I am referring too and it makes me reconsider upvoting comments at .01 or sometimes less. But I still do because I've been trained for so many years by other social media sites to like, heart, and +1 all comments, haha!
i knew all this and that is why i don't upvote comments :) had no idea, thanks for the info
Crazy right? I still don't really get it all. But here's a small upvote anyway, haha!
0.002 :)
Hahaha, you're rich now!