I look at comment upvotes as two-fold. 1) it lets people know I've seen their comment. I guess this is more important if I don't reply, but it still serves the same purpose. I do the same on FB (on the rare occasions I'm there) and other social media. 2) Yeah, as you say, it's kind of a thank you. Unfortunately this is less a reason because any upvote less than 3 cents will go to dust. So.... well, we're back to the first reason 😃 I do hope to grow my account enough that my 3-5% upvote on comments is above that 3 cent limit. I'd love to give like dime upvotes on comments at least eventually.
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I thought the whole dust vote thing went away with one of the recent hard forks. That was the understanding I had anyway. When I don't have 1/4 of my HP delegated out to ZING, I think that 2 to 3% does equal close to $.03. It depends on the price of Hive though.
Yeah, I thought that too, but I was set straight. There is a link that explains it. I think it was by geekgirl or gadrian, from a few months back. If I can find it I'll give it to you. Long story short, the limit is still there, so services like dustsweeper are still useful.
I was delegating to ZING, but I was just selling what they gave me, so with the price dropping I decided it was no longer worth it. But then I just moved that delegation to the Japan community, so now I don't have the money or the tokens to sell. Go figure!
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About that dust thing, @bozz & @dbooster... I know of at least two bots that are designed to help with the dust issue; @dustbunny (created by @fraenk), and @dustsweeper (by @danielsaori). They both work in a similar fashion, that they check your upvoted comments for upvotes that haven't broken the 3 cent mark, and give a tiny upvote to push it over that limit.
I've seen @dustbunny work on some of my comments, so I do know it's at least active, but I'm not sure whether the discord channel is still active or not. I hope @fraenk and @danielsaori see my comment so they can confirm whether and how the bots work today.
Mind you, those links are both quite old, so some information might be a bit outdated.
I feel like one of them you used to have to buy credits and have enough available for it to work. I could be thinking of something else though.
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Chiming in a bit late ;)
@dustbunny is still working normally, there hasn't been any major changes since the last posts were made years ago, the bunny is fluffing around happily ever since.
@dustbunny is intended as a community service where people can voluntary delegate some HP into a "pool", so to speak, and will receive dust-protection in return.
The bunny kind of prefers to help plankton users with outgoing&incoming dust-votes, under these conditions enrollment is completely free (no delegation required) and will provide the occasional dust-votes. As a user's stake (or more precisely the total rewards earned on the platform) the bunny will be less generous to these users unless the contribute with a delegation.
To sign up, people can either just send a delegation or say "hi" and request free enrollment on the discord server.
All accounts on the watchlist are vetted for spam or automated commenting. So it's best to just pop into the discord and ask to get your account cleared. The goal of the project was always to encourage and reward genuine organic engagement on the chain.
And hey: Thanks for the shoutout! You've been a very generous supporter of the bunny's mission with your big delegation for a long time, so thanks a lot for that, too!
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