Hello "Dust" Friends,
The STEEM price has had a tough ride and has been as low as $0.20 in recent months. The lower STEEM price means that more SP is needed to hand out the same upvote value. When we recently ran a calculation, around 1000 SP was needed to be able to reach a $0.02 vote. So, of course, this makes it harder for Dusty to sweep. At the moment, the average rate is just above 200 votes per day.
One consequence of the lower STEEM price, something that 
Dusty is configured to skip posts/comments if the value shows "0.000". Taking rounding into account, it means that anything with a value less than "0.0005" will be ignored.
Previously this was never really an issue, but with the price drop, a minimum of 25SP is now needed to reach this level.
Dustsweeper is here to help save upvote values less than $0.02. So Dustsweeper is most effective the closer the upvote value is to $0.02. When sweeping extremely small dust values we are basically just spending the voting power without actually returning anything to you as a customer.
If you have any thoughts about this please let us know below.
In case you haven’t noticed, the last update to the Discord bot now makes it possible to check when a user received the last dusty vote.
The 2nd last line displays the time Dusty tried to sweep the account for dust, no matter if dust was available or not. And the last line displays the time when the account received the last vote.
Here the latest Dustsweeper statistics.
ps. If you wonder about the cool 
Dustsweeper is an initiative supported by Witness 
Seeing a 2 cents profit turn into dust doesn't sound like much, but for someone new, it can make all the difference.
