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Votes are for everyone. It's not limited to the big accounts, even though it feels like that sometimes. If the old HF19 system is still in affect, then you have to get a payout above $0.025 to actually get the payout. Otherwise, it's rounded down to $0 as "dust." The change was supposed to make all votes a little smaller, but to allow payouts of everything.

Once you get 1 SBD, you can send it to @dustsweeper and they'll come through before payout and upvote comments that you haven't self-voted and get those comments above the dust threshold. I think the limit is two comments per day. Check it out if you haven't seen the program. It has been very helpful.