Hello Planet Steemit!
While I typically post under #steemsilvergold and stuff my feed full of subject-related posts, I do like to venture out from time to time. A few weeks back, I happened upon a wonderful user, @metzli (go check her out!). She has an excellent mommy-blog (please don't kill me if I've over-simplified her subject matter!); I think I was subconsciously drawn to it because it was very similar to the kinds of things my wife talks about all the time when she thinks I'm listening😉. Don't get me wrong, someone in the household has to mind that stuff and I'm ever-thankful for it!
I love the mommies!
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In any case, somewhere in one of her blogs, she mentioned @dustsweeper and the service it provides. I was immediately interested, since I'd recently made a post (https://steemit.com/steemsilvergold/@nofiat/give-to-get-why-i-ve-increased-my-voting-weight-for-our-myprecious-curation-trail-and-why-you-should-too) about our community's curation trail, and increasing our respective allotted voting power. Without knowing it, I was essentially trying to avoid collecting too much "dust".
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What is dust, you ask?
Here is the short of it: Essentially, because of conversion rates, algorithms, technical details, wizardry, and steemit garble, all those votes on your posts and comments that total about .01$- .02$ STU are generally worthless to the recipient.
My first reaction was to feel bad. Here I was all this time thinking my two cent comment up-votes were worth something for the up-votee. NOPE! My second thought was, Damn, That Really Sucks!
Enter @Dustsweeper!
This is the brainchild of @danielsaori and @davemccoy. WHAT A GREAT IDEA! Please do go follow these folks for a more eloquent explanation of the service or look here, but this is my rough understanding of how it works:
They use SBD you send them to "sweep up" all up-votes under the payout threshold for your up-voted posts and comments. They have the secret decoder ring to figure that out.
You can get a refund at any time. They up-vote on day 5 or 6 to avoid price fluctuations after the fact. They will send you up to 3 messages when your balance gets low. It's like an insurance policy against the likelihood of non-payable votes.
I sent 3 SBD earlier today.
With this service, all votes truly matter now! WOOO-HOOO!
This is exactly the kind of thoughtful stuff I look for when I consider my witness votes. If you haven't filled all your witness vote slots (or even if you have, look again, there are many inactive witnesses), please strongly consider voting for @danielsaori.
Thank you for your continued support of SteemSilverGold
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This looks good @nofiat i’m gonna’ give ‘er a spin!
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Agreed! For upvotes on posts this is not an issue normally (votes accumulate here) but single comments yes! What I never get is how people access the blockchain with extra tools like this. iT people for sure.
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I've seen this I've before and wondered how it all worked myself. I may have to try it now.
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I have been using @dustsweeper for about two weeks and it is extremely useful to make those small votes on your commentaries (does not work on articles) to be worthy votes you received.
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lol on being totally bribe-able :P ... You did a great job on the article and it is a pleasure to meet you @nofiat! I really liked our conversation last evening and I think you have a bright future ahead (hint: shiny) ;)
Thank you for highlighting @dustsweeper and its also great that you let people know about @danielsaori's witness, he really is a good guy!
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Thanks Dave! I didn't expect to chat with you as long as I did, but it was quite delightful! Thanks for answering all my questions. It was a nice bonus to find a new fellow stacker! I look forward to seeing you around the #steemsilvergold tag more!
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@nofiat Same here.... I enjoyed it too and glad we connected! :)
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You did a great job on the post and it's awesome to see you promoting @dustsweeper and that you support my witness.
non-bride-able or not, ;) I gave you my full upvote to show my appreciation. Unfortunately it is not a lot this week as I have delegated almost all my SP. So it was definielty not a bride :)
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Thanks very much Daniel! I appreciate good work and I was inspired to make the post and hare the good news! Keep doing all you do man, best wishes!
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