Comment voting; some vote, some don’t.

If you do, then make sure it’s efficient and it's not a dust vote. That is what this article is about in a nutshell.

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Author rewards on Steemit are king. We all want recognition, and seeing these popup is just a good feeling.

Any comment less than $0.03 in value will turn to dust and the author reward will not be paid out.

If you are a Plankton/Red Fish or a Minnow then what you read here will make your votes count more and not be wasted.

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With the low price of STEEM it’s hard to make an impact when voting as someone with low SP, as is the majority of Steemians and especially so when it comes to voting on comments.

I would currently personally advise non-Dolphins and lesser Minnows (less than 3000 usable SP) to **NOT** vote on comments as they are likely to be wasted or will take too much of your voting power to be efficient.

Let me give you an example, and please don’t take this personally anyone as the names mentioned in the screenshots mean well, but could use their VP in better ways.

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The rewards highlighted in YELLOW are too low for the author reward threshold and will not be paid out.

As you can see there are three quite close together that were given with good intentions but are wasted.

<H4>But what about Dustsweeper?</H4>

@dustsweeper is still up and running, but only votes up TWO dust votes per day. The rest of them will go POOF. Maybe @danielsaori or @davemccoy can comment on why this limitation is in place. 

If every dust vote was captured by @dustsweeper then you wouldn’t be reading this now.

<H4>What can I do about it?</H4>

As a low SP Steemian its hard work keeping up your VP. You seem to be dishing out lots of 100% votes and it quickly goes down.

I would personally advise against voting on comments and utilize your VP on posts. Your vote will not be wasted on a post as the author reward is a CUMALATIVE total of all the votes placed.

If you really feel like you want to vote up comments, then I have a strategy for you. Look at the image below and sorry @bozz for using you as an example. I know you mean well!

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The vote by @bozz (marked in red) will be a dust vote unless @dustsweeper picks it up. What @bozz could have done is append his vote to the one above (marked in blue) and then it would have been a valid author reward.

@bozz has recently powered up and is a firm believer in the STEEM Eco-System. I sincerely don’t mean any disrespect pal, you were just a good example that I found.

<H4>It's just pennies, do we really care?</H4>

It is just that, but for some reason because it's STEEM we want to get the most out of it. We are dedicating time and effort to write content so we feel we need to gain something back in return.

@steevc mentioned to me just yesterday something that really puts this into perspective.

***'It's funny that we get excited about a couple of quid'.***

This is not even that, it's just pennies, and you could walk around the streets scouring the ground for 30 minutes and collect a few if you like!

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